Week 4

This week was dedicated to fixing the rails. The rails are overlapping in a way that will result in the collector shoes getting stuck. The Solidworks image made by Tan Ho in Figure 1 shows an example of how the collector shoes should go. The blue arrow indicates the correct direction for the shoes. Going the opposite way will prevent the shoes from running smoothly. The team before made the rail in the opposite direction. I have to fix the railings. The difficult part is that there are over 70 feet of railing, and that there is glue on the copper railings. Some copper railings are not connect, and it was different lengths. The entire rails have to be changed. This week was to decide how the rails can be changed, and fix half the railings. There might be a new design on the railing, because having the shoes fall onto another copper rail will create noise and damage to the rail. There might be another way to fix the rails stacking.

Figure 1. Correct rail stack by Tan Ho