Aah;;; didn’t realize to upload them seperately, here they are at once:
20200224
reports
Littman: bought a new head, pilot jet close to running; front fork should tighten the handling on green bike
Carbonator: ready to insert into bike, attempt to run; learned how best to adjust with adaptable wrench; love affair with duct tape “if you haven’t
Detailing: sanding and priming surfaces for paint; will have to sandblast and weld a hole
Fluids: oil pump screws weren’t tightened -> had to pound the screws, seem to have figured out the oil leakage
Front fork: making caps to prepare for powder coating, will need to drill threads, weld on a clamp
Clutch: learned how to start orange cycle, noticed leak
Top end: bad seal, dismantled the plate; largely absent due to athletics
Electrical: sandblasted rust off some cords, unable to process load anyway, will continue diagnosing
Transmission: worked with engine team on leaks, noticed foreign substances in clutch that’ll have to be clean, tested for magnetism; Jake: “everything is problematic”
Frame: fixing the dent, has separated the fork from the swing arm, used vice to bend back in place, will be sandblasting holes soon
gears
Clutch basket usually attached to shaft of transmission, which turns the gear and turns the wheel: if the torque/load is too high, the clutch will skip and protect the engine; amount of slippage adjustable through central gears
-> has three sets of gears to provide more friction, make it more difficult to slip
barrel
Gets reboarded/fitted with an oversized piston every year
readings
chap. 13; Taylor
Taylor: learned more about school, Church of Reason; took up majority of chapter
Adam: subjects are alive, teaching v. research (teaching can be dull)
Rupert: p.148; the university is a state of mind “quite interesting”
Kaixing: teaching is a refreshing return to the fundamentals and not necessarily a place for intellectual death (Fine Hall retiring math prof)
Kate: visualizing history as archaeology
Benjamin: “a legal corporation cannot teach” -> New Hampshire tried to make Dartmouth public and failed
Cecilia: association is still important, regardless of executive (church now bar)
Mary: “teaching behalf of reason, not the university;” pastor serves the community, but more importantly god
chap. 14; Barry
Taylor: object being right or wrong -> manuals written by the dumbest person in the line
Benjamin: “good maintenance delivers peace, bad maintenance disturbs it;” quality of job you do is reflection of state of mind
Kate: lose the manual, figure it out yourself
Adam: p.165, instructions begin and end with the machine, destroying creativity -> the university gets you from one point to the next, but only in one way
Barry: Robert disturbed by how he changes (defining quality)
Littman: dialectic discussion is to seek the truth, debate is to convince
Kaixing: Robert is incredibly self-centered, isolates himself because he thinks he’s unique – he’s not, and in exchange he loses out on a lot of solidarity (students who will sacrifice a little GPA to explore)
Tianh: something about rotisseries (sry)
Daphne: “a long-lost form of sculpture;’ structurally speaking all mechanical work is art
Reece: Robert contradicts himself frequently between mechanical and romantic
chap. 15; Ben
Rupert: why is Robert trusting his motorcycle to a random mechanic -> needed a shop
Taylor: rhetoric is art of language for persuasion
Kate: he’s clearly attempting to teach -> writing this book, tells you to write an essay
Cecilia: broader issue with his life; if he thinks of Quality of purpose, where’s the other elements of life?
20200226
reports
Taylor: motorcycle won’t start, will work on carbonator
Barry: detached plate, attempting to fix oil leak, will work on gaskets today
Adam: saw sandblaster for first time while cleaning spark plug
Andy: still in process of cleaning dried material off gasket
Daniel: cleaning springs and gasket
Reese: finished making cover, learned how to measure pits/use lithe/cut threads
Kate: took apart and pieced tgt model of transmission
Anna: attempting to diagnose oil leak in cover as well (engine case apparently leaks in too many places)
Jen: took apart and pieced tgt model of clutch, needs to rethread a part
Macy: ^ditto + spindle
Benjamin: horn wasn’t shorted out, needs freer movement
Cecilia: white paste gets dark as it removes aluminum
Annie: cleaning
Rupert: compression testing; put in compression tester, kickstart, check for max pressure
Jake: worked on transmission, needs to fix a split washer
Tianh: sandblasted frame, sand was extremely
Daphne: also horn!
tools!
Horsepower dynameter???
Slack Kevlar rope goes at speed of torque input into system, will pull the sensors that measure torque via. pressure -> since it’s spinning, toque of upper rope goes up as torque of lower rope goes down
Calculates the torque v. speed, a little bit of math gets you the power
Running motors at half of no-load speed seem to offer best capacity, so you should load it down (going up incline, etc.)
readings
chap. 16; Anna
Anna: idea of quality
Adam: rhetoric of present vs. what’s to come
Barry: writing paper but not knowing what she wrote about
Tianh: narrow it down five times
Reese + Kate + Anna: discouragement of originality
Jen: coherence of argument; get disengaged u flunk out (have intrinsic motivation)
Macy: quality of work v. grading
Annie: people are breaking down over grades
yah this is just a conversation about grades
“not how it’s taught but how the subject is approached”
chap. 17; Jen
Tianh: quality may not be defined
Barry: arguing what quality is//”interesting”
Kate: lack of definition
Cecilia: when the focus is only proving yourself, there’s not much meaning in it
Littman: present examples, not definitions
Adam: to the untrained eye, climbing is identical
Tianh: OA
Jen: what words do you think are vague?
Kaixing: sustainability
Barry: justice
Anna: art
Littman: beauty
Macy: eye of the beholder
Ben: where is insanity, in attempting to measure or in leaving it unanswered
chap. 18; Tianh
Ben: son gets injured to get reaction from father
Rupert: problem is his son can’t separate him from Phedrus
Kaixing: separation of memory self and depiction
Taylor: original thought
Anna: interpretation? “what is existence”
Barry: realism: importance of quality (the arts, sports, etc. cannot exist without quality)
Kaixing: quality is a social construct (art is human behavior, u don’t tell a dog they can’t bark well)