Mark J. Terra-Salomão
From this first assignment I learned that accurate measurements with a caliper, while important, are not enough. When it comes to friction fit, you must take a range of very close values and then test pieces with all of those dimensions to get the best, tightest fit. That's how I got the hex hole to friction fit the nut and bolt so well. Essentially this fabrication assignment had a very similar message to our first studio project: sometimes you can only learn by doing and making; sometimes the numerical data, for example, is not enough.
As the sketches explain, my "bloxes" took the form that they did because it was one solution (another one being recessing, as we learned on Monday) to the fact that the nut - due to rust accumulation and manufacturing tolerances - does not sit completely flush with the bolthead. Fortuitously this also makes the nut piece rest diagonally to the bolt piece, which makes for a nice aesthetic effect.
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