Since the last time I have worked on my project I have not done very much. The weather has been good and bad and I was having trouble finding time to get out to my mentors shop. I am hoping to get to his shop this weekend so I can possibly finish my project and start working on my presentation. I like that I had a nice break of not working on it but I think it will feel even better when I have my project completely finished. When it is finished I will get it back to my uncle to see if he likes what I did with it.
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While working on my project I have learned many things! I have learned how to mainly run a plasma cutter and a welder! Also I have learned how to use many different power tools like big metal cutters and battery powered saws. Along side of just working on my project, I have also been helping my mentor with some of his own projects! He has shown me how to tear apart engines and also how to put them back together! I am having a great time learning from my mentor.
The next time I met with my mentor we took the cab of the pickup off the frame. After the cab was off, there were still some little things that needed to be taken out of the frame of the pickup. Once we got all the little cables and hoses out, we were ready to cut the frame. We cut the frame far enough ahead of the box so we had room to put a gas tank in front of the box. Once this was all done, we used more metal to help brace the front of the trailer.
After I got my pickup to my mentors house, we started my project. At first we had to figure out how to get the gas tank out of the frame of the pickup before we started cutting the frame. We had to do this so we didn't get the gas too hot and blow it up. After we got the gas tank off of the frame, we took the motor out of the pickup so we could keep the good parts that were able to be used again. Once we got the motor out of the pickup, we were ready to take the cab of the pick up off of the frame.
Lately I have started to get ready to work on my project. I had to clean out the back of the pickup at my uncles because some of the stuff in the pickup needed to stay at his house. Three of the four tires were also flat. We tried putting air in them but they would not hold any air. We went and got different tires that were used to put on the pick up. After we put the tires on the pick up, we got the pick up running and drove it over to my mentors house and parked it in his yard.
Yesterday I contacted my mentor to talk about my senior project. We decided that we can probably start working on my project next week after thanksgiving is over. When we meet for the first time I will then have him finish signing and doing all his paper work that he has to get done. I can't wait to get together with my mentor and start my project.
Now that I am done with my paper I get to start contacting my mentor. My mentor that I have will be a great person to work with because he has a lot of experience with what I want to do my project on. I will soon meet with him to go over plans on my project. after we figure out our detailed plans, we will start working on my project. I think I will have fun working with my mentor because he is a family friend that is fun to be around. I hope my project turns out great and my mentor and I can get working on it soon.
When I was looking through my sources finding information, I found some cool information that I never knew about welding. I thought it was cool that you can weld materials at or around room temperature. Some of the information was information that I kind of already knew like the different types of welding. Even though I knew about the different types of welding, I never knew exactly how each one of them worked. I also didn’t know all the different kinds of welds that you can use one materials. Doing this research helped me gain a lot of knowledge on the subject of welding.
Lately I have been working on getting ready to write my research paper. To write my research paper I had to find my ten sources. Some of the sources that I found we had to order from libraries around the state. After I got all my sources I had to correctly cite each source on source cards. When I got this done I then started taking notes out of all the sources. I ended up getting enough information to fill fifty-eight note cards so I can start writing my paper.
When I was sitting at home thinking of my senior project topic I could only think of one idea that really interests me. I love working with cars and other machinery. for the last couple years, I have started to love working on tractors with my uncle and getting to learn how to fix things. I have also started to fix some problems with my own cars these last couple years. Since I have started working on cars and tractors I would like to extend my knowledge a little more. For my senior project I would like to cut off the box of my uncles old pick-up and change it into a trailer that we can put things in that we need in order to fix equipment in our fields, such as a welder, smaller tools, and even a fuel tank just in case we run out of fuel. On the trailer there will be a roof so tools cant get wet. there will also be many smaller compartments that we can put smaller tools in. The last main thing I will have on the front of the trailer will be a place to hold the large fuel tank in place. I think that this project will be fairly cheap because my mentor will have all the equipment that I will need to do this project.
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