Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Knuckle

I programmed the lower suspension mount and the tie rod arm of the knuckle for Baja. We had a programming error that led to a part being thrown, but after we fixed the problem the program worked great.




Rear Hubs

The first part I programmed and ran on my own was the rear hub for Baja. This was after a month of working with Fusion and the VF3. 

The polygon was interesting to work with and to avoid wasting the limited amount of hub stock we had, I ran the polygon op separately on scrap blocks. I tested the fit with the previous year's yoke to ensure it would function as intended before running the full part. In order to get a good origin for the second op of the hub, I drilled a starter hole for the polygon in the first operation and probed off of that. I finished the polygon in the second op.