As we started to design the hooks in solidworks, we went through a couple designs to ensure that the hooks would actually catch the way we would want as well as catch even when the track is switching. Additionally, we met with Bengt on Veteran's day to show our designs to him. After showing him our design, he agreed with what we had in mind, stating that there wasn't too much else we could do to mechanically catch everything.
At this time, we were finally able to start addressing the upstop wheel, which is a fail safe that we wanted to implement to help stabilize the bogie as it traveled on inclines and declines. Our main cause for putting off this design was that we planned to add it onto the steering mechanism. Because we've been unsure of how the steering team would be making their design, we waited for them to finalize everything more. Since they met with Bengt the same day as our team, we were able to see their most final design and start brainstorming where to place the upstop wheel.
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