Senior Week 15

This week I continued working on the snowboard hanger project. At the end of last week I started looking for ways to reduce the material in my design after stress testing it and realizing that I could reduce the amount of material used significantly. At the end of last week I also shortened how far out the bottom part went. This took away a lot of unneeded material.

The message I got from stress testing last week

This week I started by looking for drywall anchors to see what size I would need to make my screw holes. I found the anchors that I was going to use and they said they were 1/4 in. I adjusted the screw holes on the hanger to this.

The drywall anchor I plan on using

Next I continued looking for ways to reduce the material I used. I did this by making the back support piece of the hanger shorter. On the left you can see the new shorter design compared to an older picture on the right.

Old design

Newer design