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Responsible Engineers: Dave,   Trevor, Abraheim, Adam

 

OverviewIssue:

  • Can't put a huge aluminum cylinder on the lathe. 

  • Can't assume the cots cylinder is perfectly smooth/uniform... it will have some imperfections and be warped.

  • How to smooth these out without the use of a lathe?

Tools:

  • Engine Cylinder Hone 
    • Method of Use:
      • removes a little material on inner tube
      • put on drill
    • Will it work on 6 inch metal cylinder.
    • How to purchase?
      • order online, replace sandpaper 

Questions:

 

Problem: 

Screw holes are not radially symmetric (run-out tolerance is too high)

 

Solutions:

Get inside circular (using cylinder hone)

  • Allows us to clamp chuck from inside of the cylinder when radially indexing (?)

Find a way to make the outside circular, then radially index how we have been

  • Build a new tool to attach to drill?

  • Use homemade woodturner to slowly turn and sand the outside?

  • What does tool do? spins sandpaper very fast
  • How to use tool? mount on drill
  • Will it work? maybe

 

Next Steps:

  • Order

  • Cylinder
  • cylinder hone online, replace stones with 80 grit sandpaper.

  • Look at homemade turning tool

  • Research industry solutions

 

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Max Height: 8 feetz

 

Big Cylinder:

6’’ Diameter

7’ height (upper end)

 

Small Cylinder:

4’’ Diameter

4’ height (upper end)

 

Tools:

  • Engine Cylinder Hone 

  • Homemade wood turner

 

Resources:

https://www.sandvik.coromant.com/en-us/knowledge/drilling/radial-adjusted-drilling

https://www.keyence.com/ss/products/measure-sys/gd-and-t/type/run-out-tolerance.jsp