The Design

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PROGRESS REPORT

After our holiday workshop day we have completed most of the (actual) parts of our car, and that which is the most time-consuming. We realised today that the original invention we had used for the front trolley wheel bit wouldn't work because it was actually fixed and rigid. This si ebcause it had two pivot points. We fixed this by fixing the trolley wheels to a piece of flat metal, drilling a hole through this piece and then gluing a piece of brass rod through a bearing in this hole. This meant the front wheels (now attached to each other) would pivot in synchronisation with each other on that singular point. We also pop riveted the metal supports for our capsule to the chassis and cut out our 200 square cm windbreak out of balsa wood.

We have constructed the back bit of the car and cut the carbon fibre rods and done the front trolley wheels which just need gluing.

During the holidays we cut two pieces of metal. Each would hold the two rods of carbon fibre together (one at the back and one at the front) and together with the carbon fibre rods (which we also cut to size) would comprise the chassis.

We finally agreed on a design.