Saturday, 2 June 2018

The Next step

(26/12/2017 )
Greetings people, I'm back again, with another Blog post, and unexpectedly, I'm actually continuing my work with rockets next year. And I've got some more good news, I'm now on to the next step of model rocket building. Why, because yesterday, I got a 3D Printer for Christmas just as I wanted.

Here's what happened weeks earlier. After I finished school and finished my 10 days of work experience at my Dad's power station in Kwinana, I've been told some bad news about my subject selections for next year. The subjects I've had chosen for 2018, are the exact same as what I had for this year. One of the non ATAR subjects I have already past, which is "Graphics and Design",  a "certificate 2 vet course", as I've done that, I can't do it again. I didn't succeed in my Engineering course this year as I didn't meet my requirements because of setbacks I've faced   All this shattered me and all this caused me to lose Engineering as a subject. It caught me in a bit of a melt down but I got through it, and after deciding about having "No" ATAR subjects, I then decided to continue with my work with rockets in 2018.

When it was getting close to Christmas, I made a Christmas list of what I would like for Christmas. One of the things I wanted was a 3D Printer, I've got it. We've tested it, and it worked perfectly when we printed a test rabbit. Then that night, Dad tried out one of his projects he designed.

Today on Boxing day, I've printed 2 sections of a rocket nose cone, the first section took an hour, and the second one is taking more than 2 hours. I'm very pleased with the work of this printer and I'll continue later. Until then, good bye.

(7/01/2018)
Hello again, I've got some extra bits. The 3D Printer I've got for Christmas is spectacular. I've printed my first Prototype Nose cone with a few design flaws due to rushing to get a complete prototype.


These were taken a day after Christmas, tested with a test tube you can see in the top photo. Unfortunately there have been some problems with the printing with the cone section but everything went well, the start of the second prototype didn't because the first section was the only thing that I've printed but the print got messed up. This is the extra bit I wanted to share, until next time, goodbye.

(2/06/2018)
Sorry for the delay of publishing this post. I've got held up by school work and now here it is.