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October 28, 2009

Cut and drill

Filed under: Hardware — Bruce Ammons @ 8:00 pm

NI has a sbRIO ready and waiting for me.  They just need to test it and then they will ship it to me.  Hurray!!

Today was a big day.  Cut the aluminum pieces for the cart.  We only had 2” aluminum angle, so we carefully cut one leg off to get a 2” wide strip.  It isn’t perfect (kind of ugly) but it worked and I didn’t have to buy another piece of aluminum.  Drilled a bunch of holes with a drill press.  I learned I am not very good at using a drill press.  Most of my holes were not centered, even after using a punch to mark where they were supposed to be.  After a little rework got everything good enough to put it all together.  The cart looks ugly, but it will do the job.  I’m not running a beauty pageant, after all.

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