Today we had our second stage presentation on our progress on our technology project the retro fit exhaust brake. Once again I feel as if we have not achieved enough and that we are not making particularly good progress. And once again Simon and Vadim presented their project first. In comparison to their progress we have done nothing. I am hoping to some progress this week.
On thursday we met with our technical advisor, Anura and he said to use that we should do a hardness test on the exhaust brake butterfly valve and shaft which were he had kindly sourced and supplied to us for free. So we went to see Jone the materials lecturer who did not know how to use the hardness tester. So he told us to see Anura who wound up knowing how to use and showed us. He told us about the different hardness testing ways which go from hardness rockwell A through to hardness rockwell G.
The next part really interested me, Anura was able to get one of the technicians to fit a valve in the back of the exhaust pipe behind the turbo so is that we could use a manometer to measure the pressure behind the turbo. So I am hoping that the technician can do this so we can get some more practical testing done, rather than all our work being theoretical.
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