notes by Brendan
Reading for next week (EXAM WEEK):
Tuesday: Shopclass as Soul Craft – Chapter 2
Thursday: Shopclass as Soul Craft – Chapter 3
What we did last class:
- Julianne: worked on cutting valves for cylinder head. Measured distances for holes for bolts.
o Used lathe to make 45 degree angles
o Used steel blue to see what material was removed
o Exhaust is the smaller valve. Intake is larger to take in more air.
- Noelle: cleaned carburetor. Took it apart and put back together. Started putting it back onto red motorcycle.
- Charlie: cut valves. Working on finding x and y coordinates of all the holes in the engine cover.
o Mapping holes: put engine cover on bed of mill. Found drill bits that fit holes. One hole is origin and you mark the subsequent holes off that. Put x-y coordinates into CREO and take that to the “laser” cutter.
- Connor: cleaned bottom end of engine. Disassembled and collected parts. Painted it and let it dry. Cleaned it out with air hose to get rid of sand.
- Emily: worked on fenders by polishing them with dye grinder. Changed to sand blasting the rust off. Filled the extra holes on fender with bond-o.
- Hannah: Problems locating part. Setting things up to get chromed. Putting rear wheel together today. Cleaned sprocket threads.
- Eric: Rethread old hub so they weren’t sandblasted. Assembling rear hub.
- David: waiting for new parts to come in for transmission. Took demo transmission apart and put it back together a couple times. Works well now.
- Jake: figured out speedometer gear box ratio for our bike. Cleaned polished parts. Tried diagnosing vibration of red bikes front forks
- Alex: taking pictures. Noelle mentioned everything else
- Grace: cleaned inventoried other parts of motor
- Jordan: Got parts ready for chroming. Disassembling
- Sarah: Looked at videos to learn more about disassembly.
- Alex: demo transmission. Re orient washers.
- Ricky: nothing more to add, sarah covered it all..
Book discussion: Chapter 11: Kant and Hume, Chapter 12: Eastern vs. Western, Chapter 13: Church of Reason
- Motorcycle references: adjusting carburetor at high elevation. Brake shoes: sit on top of wheel and clamp wheel to create resistance.
- Concept: Apriori motorcycle
Chapter 14:
- Motorcycle references:
o Technical reference: sheet metal sculptor is suspicious until he realizes the narrator does a lot of welding.
o The BBQ instructions to build a BBQ rotisserie. Narrator talks about set of instructions in Japanese and requires a “peace of mind” to be assembled.
o View instructions as a guide but not if it doesn’t work you can’t do it. Instruction manuals are boring because it says “do this” but not “why”
o Look at instructions as art.
- Content:
o Introduction to the DuIuse’s.
o Distinction between classical and romantic.
o Narrator meeting Duiuse as himself and not Phaedrus less tension than expected.
Chapter 15:
- Motorcycle references:
o The Chain adjuster link
- Content:
o Phaedus interacts with Chris and the narrator’s wife in memories.
- Outpouring of memory when narrator visits his old office. First time the narrator acknowledges the beginning of his craziness
- Chris remembers when the narrator was Phaedrus and they were looking through the streets for the narrator.
o Narrator meets a woman that has a respect for him although she knows he was deemed crazy by the institution.
o Sarah was narrator’s coworkers that talked about teaching quality to his students.
- Instead of teaching rules, teach deep concepts over correct spelling and grammar.
- Rejection of Prescriptive Rhetoric
o Assignment to students: 350 word essay about what is quality and thought.
- Made his students nervous.
Other stuff:
Domed piston is now in.
Piston has an orientation and this one seems ambidextrous.
Cross polarizers in class.
Brewster’s angle ~60 degrees. No reflected beam. Can’t make measurement without interfering with what you’re looking at.
“Philosophy looks for black cat in dark room. Science is looking for black cat in dark room with a flash light.”
Professor Martinelli’s slides are now posted
Today: Bore the barrel.
Grind valves.