The final week of the holidays was our most busiest week of them all. On Monday we spent the morning at Te Whare Whai Hua to find the area of the site where we're putting the submarine on so that we can pass this information to the Gisborne District Council for our meeting, and also M.E Jukes & Son, who are going to supply us with sand. Many thanks to Trevor and Damon Jukes
On Tuesday, we cut out the shape of four portholes on the submarine where perspex will be bolted between a circular frame. Making efficient use of your time in the workshop is important, finding ways to speed up the process of tasks is even better. Jack suggested that we make two jigs. The first jig was a piece of MDF(Medium-Density fibreboard) that was clamped to the bandsaw, a small nail was hit threw the centre of a square piece of 18mm thick ply which was then spun around to create the circular shape of our portholes. Demonstrated by Kaleb in the video. The second jig was a donut shape cut-out, by removing the blade from the scroll saw then threading it through a small hole drilled close to the line that we planned to cut. Lastly, our portholes were clamped to the second jig and then simply routed to smoothen the edges. We also drew out templates for the fins of our submarine on an A3 piece of paper, followed by outlining this on plywood and used the bandsaw to cut close to the edges of the outlines then used a planer to straighten out the surface of the plywood.
Thursday was a fairly new experience for us even though we only had two meetings throughout the day. Our first meeting was with the Gisborne District Council where we discussed with Kimberly, Gisborne Duty Planner and a Chief Building Specialist (Forgot your name, apologies), if we needed building consent to dig out the dirt which will be replaced with sand. We concluded that because of the small nature of our project we are exempt from being required to have either Plan approval or building consent from the council. However, we must adhere to the following: The 'submarine' is less than 10m2, It is unable to be climbed on and therefore presents no failing hazards.
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