About This Project
This is our first project of the class, we were instructed to build a hydraulic arm without any guidance or instructions other than a model of the arm.
Steps That I Took
The first step I took for this project was starting the construction of the base of the arm. My thought when I started this was that I would work from the ground up, literally. I’ve done this project before in the previous year of TECH with little to no issues. I started by putting the base plate of the arm on its bolt stands so I then could start construction of the actual arm. All of the arms construction was from memory from last year so I got through that within a day. The last step I took for the arm was bleeding the syringes, not literally but bleeding them like brakes on a car. From my understanding, we used water in our hydraulic syringes instead of oil because it’s a lot less messy.