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| The workshop |
Today we got out the house around 9am and headed down to the workshop and had a good look around, while various bits and pieces were explained to us. The most impressive things being the CNC, a machine that you can use to create almost anything by using some software to build an image then program the cutting path, and the plasma cutter, that unfortunatly we didn´t get to see in action.
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| Some blades for the bigger turbines |
As we are building a smaller turbine than in previous programs we are aiming to build one each, which means that we each get to take a turn at every aspect of the process which is cool. As the mold for the blades is still being made on the CNC, the first thing that we got started on was building the coils in which the electricity is generated. Each coil needs 90 turns and has to be tight, so the first few took us a while, but after getting the hang of it we were well on our way to the 24 we need.
We had a lot of fun playing around with the magnetic black sand that can be found on the beach at Buenos Aires, simple minds and all that....
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| Trevor and Nino making coils. |
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| Dan, Nino and Micheal watching the CNC go. |
great reading Jack and nice photo.s we will definitely have a mini one for the back garden. Dad.(in India)!
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