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Construction

Construction Process Video

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Figure 1-Drawing Tree

Methods Used

Some of this project was envisioned, analyzed, and built using resources available at the Central Washington University campus. The tools/resources that were accessed at the Central Washington University campus included drills, taps, saws and the CNC plasma cutter.  However, most of the project's parts were ordered from outside sources because they required resources and tools not available at Central Washington University due to their advanced manufacturing processes such as advanced plastic as well as electronic fabrication. During the latter part of fall quarter and beginning of winter quarter certain design concerns were brought to light requiring certain revisions to necessary parts for the overall project. The first decision necessary for the project was deciding what kind of design would the heating element be and the heating cartridge was settled on. Other decisions included how to make the casing that would hold the controls for the heating system as seen below in Figure 4.

Heating Element
Sub-Assembly

Figures 2-4 to the left show the construction of the heating element bearing sub-assembly. The process and creating of the bearings changed very drastically over the course of constructing the oven heating system. As can be seen in figures 2 and 3 the bearings started at the top of the oven enclosure and changed from triangular to spherical shaped bearings. Figure 4 shows the final completed bearings placed at the bottom of the enclosure.

Heating Controls
Sub-Assembly

Figures 5-8 to the left show the construction of the heating controls sub-assembly. Figure 5 shows the initial enclosure made from steel however due to the steels high durability it was very difficult to work with, so it was switched out for aluminum instead. The remaining figures show the overall construction of the temperature controller enclosure used to house the temperature controls.

Oven Power/Wiring Box
Sub-Assembly

Figures 9-13 to the right show the construction of the oven power/wiring box sub-assembly. Figure 9 shows how the heating elements are wired to the terminal block before being placed into an electrical box. During construction/wiring two new parts were added to the overall construction including a new solid-state relay and a fuse holder. Figure 12 shows the completed wiring inside the box and figure 13 shows the overall completed oven.  

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