Original Design

This project will be sponsored by Paragon Films located in Union Gap. Final design and parts decision will be made by a Paragon Films engineer. Although there was no specified budget limit by Paragon Films an initial limit of $30,000 was set, subject to change.

For this project, the main material will be ASTM A500 shaped, grade C. Being a structural steel it would be ideal for the dimensions and structure of the design. The back wall of the core bin will be SAE 1020 as well as the agitator door and the “floor” of the bin. For the sides, a see through acrylic was chosen for supervision purposes. Core buckets for the lift will be sheet metal, since there are 20+ buckets sheet metal was the best option apart from aluminum.

The main part supplier will be www.mcmaster.com. For the most part all nuts and bolts will be bought from the previous website. The budget also contains the part cost estimated and actual. Refer to Appendix D for proposed budget.

This project will be sourced out to a manufacturer, as the building process begins the actual prize for each machined part will be noted.

10th Scale

Budget for the scale model was made while the model was being constructed. The prize for the reservoir was calculated based on the prize of. A total was estimated to be below $200 dollars based on the total the amount of volume of material in SolidWorks. After printing the parts and computing the prize per cubic inch the total came out to be $130. Appendix D shows the created budget.