Wow! A very busy week for me! A lot of life's surprises outside school made it tough for me to spend as much time in the shop as I would have liked too. However I did manage to finish the Cat Basics Hydraulics, get a little bit more simulator time, finished Parker test bench and had some serious fun on the Bobcat.
The Cat Basics Hydraulics was very straight forward. I felt pretty comfortable reading simple Hydraulic schematics, yet when it came time to tell the difference between pumps in parallel and series I had some trouble but Cat Basics worked it out for me and now I got it.
The simulator time I had this week was pretty little. The control familiarization is easy in practice but much harder in exam, its hard to tell the heights when moving the bucket up or down. It was also hard to get on due to others needing to use it as well, yet I could have spent more time when I was on. To be honest I don't like the simulator at all, but I guess I got to just get through it. I need to put more time in and just do it.
I had some great learning with a few others on the Parker test bench on Wednesday. I finished up 1-10 and then 10-15 for fun. I had a few small set backs mostly due to me not reading the questions right, oops. I really do enjoy when I can work with some one who is on the same page as me when it comes to completing a task. Thanks Logan!
Friday Fun Day, Friday was fun! I definitely understand the whole reason and technique behind silver soldering, Thanks Jeff and all the others for the discussion. The Bobcat, now that was fun. It has been about 5 years since I have really touched hydraulic controls, I was a little touchy at first, but all those years of running cranes/booms/blocks/launchers/windlass/winches and everything else on fishing vessels of several sizes and fisheries came running back. I was able to stack 7 out of 8 tires the second time on and that felt nice.
Week 6
Hours 17
Total Hours 89
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