13 nd week

DANIEL PUENTE, AITOR DE LA FUENTE AND GAIZKA SEGOVIA

We started the week having some theorical speakings, because we have started the new challenge few days ago. The first speaking was about the parameters of the challenge, to make sure we all knew what we have to do.

After that we had a second speaking about technical information about foundry.

Nagore told us about the different method of foundry that are used and some features about them, and after that we made some execises about foundry, to make sure that we understood the theory and to start reminding some things. 

At English classes some people made a presentation about what they do on their DUAL, and the people that do not have DUAL made presentation about some topics that Ricardo told us.

The second day we started drawing in catia the base of the die with the information that Nagore  gave us.

Each person of the group did his sketch of the base and explain it to the rest of the group.

After that we choose the better option for the challenge and we made some changes to improve the design.

We also have an speaking from a person that came from a company, he speaked us of what is his job on his company.

On thursday we went to a foundry of Elorrio, Betsaide S.A.L and we made guided tour through all the different phases and they explained what they were doing in each one.

12th week

Aitor de la Fuente, Daniel Puente, Gaizka Segovia

The last week we started with the presentation of our new challenge, in this challenge we have to design a base of fundition for our die.

For this we have some PDF to read where we have the information. There is the iformation of how is going to be the minimum distance of our bases walls, the treatments that we can use on it, treatment for the hardness our it, because we are going to hit it with 80 tones, the hight of the pores when we paint it, the percentage of carbono that we have to use, minumum 1,76% and maximum 6.67%. The angle of the ramps, minimun angle sould be 30º, because the scrap that we dont need can evacuate better.

For our base we are doing an individual sketch where we  draw in 3D how we think that can be the better way of the bases design. There we try to draw with the minimum material possible and taking into account our die. Because if we make the evacuation ramps in the grong place we can have problems when the die is working.

With Julen we have learn how can we make a oiece in CATIA with angles, where we can make a solid with angle but we dont need to use the operations of cutting for it.

The next week Jon Asenjo is going to come for solve our questions of the base and to explain us how does this bases work in fundutions. Next week we are going to evaluate the sketches or the group and we are going to choose one for our die