Today, unlike any other day, was as tiring as ever. Everything had been normal until we started to build the chemical car. There so many troubleshootings, leakage in fittings, which composition of reactants to be used. For the Electrical guys, they had to figure out how to make their nozzle pronto. The Mechanicals were off early due to special business.
I was trying to screw everything tight and get a right apparatus to test the composition i needed for the experiment. I had some accident and squinched some meat on my palm. >.<
Then I managed to get everything I needed, so I test-run my experiment. The 1st go was spraying everywhere cuz the pressure was too big and there were so many leakage from the parts I 'borrowed' from the other teams. Done some tries, and got the pressure for 250,000 Pascal. But there was another requirement - to produce constant pressure for 10 secs. After few failures and some miscalculations, finally got something that can hand in tomorrow.
Then I went to checked with the others. The EE was struggling. He wasted so long hand carving the turbine, when the ME could use machine to help them in a giffy. The ME were insufficient of pipe fittings.
We only have the body, haven't glued them either. It was like closing in on 9. All the students have left the campus. In the end, we ended with no turbine and no cap for the lower chamber. Sigh! We sended the supervisor a dissapointing message but yet he thanked us. Sorry for not able to finish the car to 'show off' to the secondaries in tomorrow's 'CO2 Car' competition.
When we reached home, had to rush with another report due tomorrow, and one assignment. GOD where is my bedtime. Gotta sign out now, need to wake up early to help set up the competition and aslo go for a field trip to the plant.
Nitez :)