The Asiramolde

After Final Design Review on Friday, we thought a lot about the changes that were suggested to our group.   One was to use vacuum sealer bags instead of trying to make the thick inner lining shell out of silicon ourselves.  We had made 2 silicon sheets from the vacuum tested silicon and epoxied them together, but it was a time intensive and expensive process.  We bought vacuum sealer bags and on Tuesday we spend some time in lab playing with them.   We used the epoxy rubber to shorten one to fit in the bucket and will test that one later.

Silicon sheets joined with epoxy rubber

Silicon pocket

Vacuum Sealer bag shorten and joined with the epoxy rubber

Another part we've been working on is the case design.  The case was suppose to hold all of extra components (extra shells, nuts and bolts, and vacuum bags) but when the shell was attached to the bucket there was no was to access it.  We decided to use a double bucket design.  The bucket with the shell would sit inside another bucket and in the gap at the bottom the extra parts would be stored and easily accessible.

The slits the bucket would sit on

Two Buckets

Lowering one bucket into another

The buckets inside one another

-Megan