First Week of Work

Starting this Project was a lot harder then I thought! I just had to put that out there. To get my project rolling I had to start before the semester had begun. One of the first thing I had to do was to figure out a place to build my project. This was pretty easy to figure out due to the fact that my fathers work has all the perfect materials I needed to complete the building of the chassis. So I went in one day and asked my Fathers boss, who is the owner of the company, Ted Toland, if I could work and build my Sand Rail for my senior project, and use the tools in the shop. After I had gotten the OK, I had my father give me the number of there metal supplier and I ordered 100' of 1 1/4" tubing for the chassis. Once the metal had been delivered, witch was a few days, i began to bend the tubing to the correct shapes for the car. Previous to this experience I had never knew how to bend tubing. so I had one of my Fathers friend and fellow employee Armando, teach me how to use the pipe bender. This was a very interesting experience and I had a great time learning how to do everything! After I was taught how to use the bender my Father and I cut and bent the pipe to the correct dimensions for the car. This process was long but fun because after the pipe was cut and bent into shape I could kind of picture pieces going together into the car and it made me want to just keep working! Well after this week, I cant wait to see and write about next week.