12 May 2010

Hey Readers,

Sorry about the lack of blogs as I have been extremely busy with this whole project! But i know this is no excuse. Today was a big leap forward in this huge project we have taken up. In the past couple of weeks we have got some drafts ready of how this new A pillar design is going on sit in a vehicle and what changes its going to bring. As you already know our technical advisor was Anura he has now recommended us to consult Gerry as he has more experience in this field and is easier to locate him in the machine shop.

After fighting the weather for the couple past of days today we finally saw sunshine and decided to make a trip to Pick A Part at takanini. We got a little late but managed to reach at around 1pm. As we got all our tools ready and did the prep work to enter Pick  A Part we realised the windscreen is sitting on the part we need to cut which will result us into breaking the windscreen and paying for it for no apparent reason! So we decided to look for cars with the windscreen already removed.

This led us to a older model Holden Commodore. It held clean A pillars with no windscreen, Exactly what we were looking for! and to make it better there were 4 different models so now it was upto us how many we wanted! After alot of pulling and snatching and most importantly cutting we got one A pillar off! Phew that was some hardcore labour. Could not have done this without the help of my hardcore working partners. At this point I realised how important this small beam of metal is, as soon as i made the last cut the whole front protion of the car wanted to collapse and the car seemed to be jiggling all over the place. Some more muscle and time got us 2 A Pillars off the same Vehicle. After taking a little seat in the vehicle we could see how much different and how much more view we had of the road and no blindspots at all facing forward.

Today was our first day with some labour and we were happy with the outcome.  We are now able to put this into the stress and strain machine to get out values which will allow us to get to the next step of the project which is hardcore calculations!

Once again sorry about the delay will try my best to keep you guys updated.

Regards,
Jasmit Singh