WEEK 8.LAB: SUCCESS WITH THE SECOND DRAWER

We came into lab this week expecting to struggle through cutting our second drawer with nothing but a box cutter. However, things turned out better than expected

At first, we tried cutting through our drawer with a box cutter again. We realized quickly that this was causing our drawer to crack and split, most likely because of the temperature of the room being too cold. To overcome this, we decided to take our drawer into the machinery room and have a TA saw through it with an automatic saw. This method proved effective. Though we had to make the slot in our second drawer slightly larger than the first due to initially cracking parts of the drawer with the box cutter, (as seen in Figure 1), we were happy with the outcome of the lab. After all, our second drawer doesn't need to be as strong as our first drawer, which will be bearing the weight of the reservoir tank.

Figure 1: Full shot of the two drawers