I like to play with laser micrometers. :rock:

I can do CAD models. years of light show coordination for concerts taught me that. All the other things are acronyms for things that can be learned over time.

If I can take my CCNA exam to proceed to work on level 4 OSI layers within security protocols ranging from SSL to PCT. Shouldn't be to difficult. I can even measure fiber gage strands that are as thin as hairs.

Never seen one of those before, but just looked them up! Neat! I want a scanner for my FARO arm. Too bad it's around 20k...

Like Madwi says. It's only money. Can always make more.

We used one for measuring a critical 100% check dimension on the pintles for the F-16 afterburner fuel rails.

I don't doubt you have the capability. Thin as hairs though.... .002 is about the thickness of a human hair. Things get dicey when you start measuring in the .0001 range in a non-climate controlled environment. Dust, slight temperature variations - these are my nightmares.

The gorilla aka the machinist whose hands are squeezing the life out of the end of the mic trying to argue it is in tolerance... :rofl2:

No! Calipers are not the appropriate tool for a +/-.001 tolerance! :mad: :gtfo2:

Unfortunately the FARO arm isn't that precise. I wouldn't trust it for anything less than .001.

Most interesting piece I ever worked on was a titanium transmission frame beam for the S92 helicopter. It has center holes for bushings, vertical and horizontal, with a positioning requirement of .005 relative to 3 datum surfaces (1 of which was technically inside the center of the part... frigging engineers) and I had a 25 year old CMM to do it with.

Ahhh the good 'ol days.

Nothing a 45x electron microscope primarily used for soldering connections on motheboards couldn't fix. It's the only way I could solder with pin point accuracy when replacing micro controllers on laptops covered in oil. But it was used to make sure nothing was on fiber pairs as well before connecting them.

Now I wanna go splice a pair of fiber together to see if i've still got it....

Ha! Tell me about it! The owner was just as bad! Once, he pulled out his machinists tools from the 60s... his old calipers looked like something a phrenologist would have used to measure bumps on your head! Accurate within ± .05...

Hey intern! Come over here and get thing set up by noon, I have a meeting. :rofl2:

Everything I ever experienced with ridiculously dimensioned drawings made sense once I met Tyler. Tyler is the engineer at my current facility. He's new, fresh out of college, and I can best explain him by saying he once dimensioned a pair of nested cylinders so that both had the some outside diameter.... and expected one to fit inside the other.

I honestly dont know what some of the parts I made went to. I know back in '97 we were making parts for the stealth helicopter that crashed during the bin laden raid. One year I gave my mom a pen holder for her office and it was the inconell armor housing for the aviation black boxes CPU.

We did work for a number of ALRE systems (aircraft launch and recovery), lot of critical safety and critical application items. Most humorous was a steam catapult hook (for the deck of an aircraft carrier) which seriously was drawn to look like a giant d1ck. Some engineer somewhere had a good laugh over that.

"Hey Fred, I've got $20 that says I can put my **** on a drawing, have it mass produced, and use it to catch aircraft!"
"You're on!"

Thats funny!

Lol ill just stick to SQA because i have no idea what you guys are talking about

Our shop was in a rough neighborhood and shootings happened fairly often in the area. We had made a new prototype gun that was going to be used for trajectory computations that the big guns on the ships would be calibrated to. It used these big tracer rounds and we worked night shift... naturally we decided it was a great idea to test it out. :icon17:
There were cops flooding the area in mere minutes and everyone was just chilling by their machines like nothing happened while the foreman talked to them. He just walked by everyone and said dont even think of stepping a toe outside until your shift is over. :icon17:

That's hilarious! I knew a guy who worked at the Boeing plant on 291 outside Philly. He and a few of the other machinists fabricated a cannon, and fired stuff from one hangar to the other. Now, there are no machinists at Boeing :(

buffalo chicken wrap and pita chips for lunch.

Getting sick. Got a massive headache and my throat is killing me.

Just want to go home lol

Be careful with those Mustangs, boys...

Bad language so be careful...

Definitely do it right for sure. This is a dd. So... just the bolts and arms are all I need?

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Apparently both cars passed inspection. Shop never called me. I had to call them. What is it with my luck lately..... sheesh

So if I put all these Springs and crap on here, do these cars have any idiosyncrasies that I need to know about or is it a pretty straightforward install?

Very easy to do and the setup is dead simple to work on.

Cool. When I did the Camaro, there was this one bolt that was a pita for nearly everyone.

So the Accord loaner I got basically crapped out in San Marcos this morning :ugh:

850 miles on the odometer and every single warning lamp came on. Throttle cut to what felt like 10% meant it wasn't safe to even merge onto the highway. Dealer wouldn't return my phone calls when I tried to reach them, so I drove back to Austin on the frontage road wherever I could and put my flashers on the few times I had to enter the highway.

Dizzamn... I just started looking up parts. Just how much does it cost to lower this thing an inch?

Rough costs.300 for springs, 150 for arms, 30 for bolts.

The shop I worked at was next to a river. If we worked the weekend. Which was most of the time. We all had made potato guns. And we used oxy and acetylene to power it. At lunch time. We would sit in the parking lot and fire big potatoes at the boats on the river.

Oh... that's not bad. I must have been looking at the wrong stuff. What should I get?

Mmmmm... Dr. Tarty Sour Wheat.

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Yes?

I might as well do shocks while I'm in there.