Ergo Manufacturing Timeline
Now - 2/24 Get all new Ergo designs reviewed and approved (pedal box, dashboard, communications)
- Determine dimensions for stock
- Order stock
- Water-jet aluminum jig plates, ballast boxes, seat back, head restraint, dashboard, pedal base, foot pads (?)
2/17- Top Shell Holder
- Purchase wood, foam tape, L-brackets
- Assemble and finish top shell holder before Aero layup
- Determine Handbrake placement
2/24-3/9 Aluminum Frame Jig Handed over to Dynamics on 2/17
Mill blocksCNC plates, tabs (don't know if buying or making)?Cut bars to length
3/2-4/13 Pedal Box
- Order pedal arms, wave spring, connector rod
- Waterjet - pedal base, foot pad, connector cubes
- CNC - pedal base, mounting tabs,
- Weld mounting tab to base
AFTER 2/24 - Will be parallelized
- Find fans for driver cooling
- Buy & cut driver shields
- Buying pedal arms, acquiring brake cylinders & accelerator cylinder
- Buy hinges, L-brackets, pipe clamps for ballast boxes
- Order roll cage foam
- Buy seat, back, and head restraint foam & epoxy
- Steering wheel grip tape
- 3D print radio holder
Biggest concern is not knowing what we already have (and where is it) vs what we need to buy
Purchase requests- what if we don't know exactly what we need to buy yet (for ex top shell holder we may need to buy foam tape, wood, and L brackets) does this have t be finalized before we go buy
Ordering stock - how to request this and what does the timeline usually look like after you order it
- same with water-jetting, welding (this is in-house but is there only a certain time-frame we can do this?)
- water jetting- westbrook metals - get a quote
CNC - none of our members are CNC trained, we will likely need this for pedal base/mounts
Waterjet:
- seat back
- seat headrest
- ballast box x 2
- belly pan
- pedal base
- pedals/foot pads/wave springs
- brake/accelerator mounts
- dashboard
order/buy:
- driver shields (is steering shields still needed?)
- seat bottom/back foam
- steering wheel grip
- pedal arms
- brake/accel cylinders?
- cube-shaped brake connectors?
- aluminum jig plates/blocks/tabs/rod end bolts
- ballast box hinges/pipe clamps
2/3 - Laser cut and assemble top shell holder laser cut top shell holder, pedal box fea/aluminum frame jig design
2/10 - Design day/aluminum frame jig plates/cut bars to length, possibly cut our own L-brackets for top shell holder
2/17 - assemble top shell holder/purchase parts of top shell holder, purchase driver shields and seat foam
2/24 - aluminum frame jig plates/cut bars to length
3/2 - aluminum frame jig plates/cut bars to length
3/9 - spring break
3/16 - spring break
3/23 - pedal base/mounts/foot pad/brake connector
3/30 - pedal base/mounts/foot pad/brake connector
4/6 - 3D print radio holder
4/13 -
4/20 -
4/27
5/4
5/11
5/18 - cut driver shields and seat foam, epoxy grips to wheel & add grip tape of some sort to it
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