{"id":49,"date":"2018-08-09T13:18:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-2-tiger-cub\/?p=49"},"modified":"2018-08-15T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T13:38:00","slug":"week-10-tues-april-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-tiger-cub\/2018\/08\/09\/week-10-tues-april-17th\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 10 \u2013 Tues. April 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Week 10 \u2013 Tues. April 17th<\/h3>\n<h4>Notes by Jake Sawtelle<\/h4>\n<p>Announcements<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 more weeks of class (Final presentations will be given during Reading Period)<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 5 of <em>Shop Class as Soulcraft <\/em>due Thursday (April 19<sup>th<\/sup>)<\/li>\n<li>Will read one chapter per class until book completion (No discussion Tuesday April 24<sup>th<\/sup>due to guest speaker. Both chapters for next week will be discussed Thursday April 26<sup>th<\/sup>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Updates<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ricky, Noelle, and Alex: Continued to work on mounting the battery box, will require fabrication to install due to modifications by previous owner.<\/li>\n<li>David and Alex K: Assembled the clutch\/transmission<\/li>\n<li>Brendan and Jake: Worked on finding hardware to install nacelle<\/li>\n<li>Julianne and Charlie: Installed pushrods.<\/li>\n<li>Eric and Hannah: Continued to true the wheel. Almost finally completed. Sanded the rear hub to attach the sprocket.<\/li>\n<li>Emily and Jordan: Continued to sand and paint. Assisted by Glenn.<\/li>\n<li>Connor and Grace: Fixed hydraulic lift on motorcycle stand. Worked with David and Alex K. on clutch and transmission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reading<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 4 recap of <em>Shop Class as Soulcraft.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Themes:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o Different people are inherently better at different jobs.<\/p>\n<p>o Jobs also influence the worker.<\/p>\n<p>o Failure teaches humility.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Content:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o Discusses the beginning of the author\u2019s shop experience. Got an apprenticeship at a Porsche dealership as a teenager. Didn\u2019t learn much about car repair due to a subpar mentor.<\/p>\n<p>o Father was a physicist and tried to impart wisdom using abstract advice that wasn\u2019t easily received by the author.<\/p>\n<p>o Talks about trying to figure out someone else\u2019s design (i.e. his VW Beetle, God\u2019s design of the human body, etc.) is a humbling process.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Motorcycle\/Technical terms:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o Turbocharger: a turbine-driven forced induction device that increases an internal combustion engine&#8217;s efficiency and power output by forcing extra air into the combustion chamber.<\/p>\n<p>o \u201cMatchporting\u201d: matching up the exits of the intake manifold runners to the entrances of the head&#8217;s intake ports.<\/p>\n<p>o Swing Axle: is a simple type of independent (rear wheel) suspension allowing wheels to react to irregularities of road surfaces independently, and enable the vehicle to maintain a strong road holding.<\/p>\n<p>o Transaxle: an automotive mechanical component that combines the functionality of the transmission, axle, and differential into one integrated assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Nitriding: a heat treating process that diffuses nitrogen into the surface of a metal to create a case-hardened surface.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 10 \u2013 Tues. April 17th Notes by Jake Sawtelle Announcements 3 more weeks of class (Final presentations will be given during Reading Period) Chapter 5 of Shop Class as Soulcraft due Thursday (April 19th) Will read one chapter per class until book completion (No discussion Tuesday April 24thdue to guest speaker. Both chapters for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-tiger-cub\/2018\/08\/09\/week-10-tues-april-17th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 10 \u2013 Tues. April 17th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/63-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}