The New "What did you do with your Z today" (with off topic replies) XXIX

madwi

I like to play with laser micrometers.

JLarson

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...

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2014 370z Touring Sport Magma Red MT // BP Single Turbo 6467 // 63mm TB's // Z1 Ported Upper Mani // RJM Pedal // Zspeed Stage 3 Clutch // 526 WHP, 451 WTQ
2006 350z (Sold) // 1990 300zx (Sold) // 1985 300zx 2+2 (Sold)

Leingod

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

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madwi

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

JLarson

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.

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2014 370z Touring Sport Magma Red MT // BP Single Turbo 6467 // 63mm TB's // Z1 Ported Upper Mani // RJM Pedal // Zspeed Stage 3 Clutch // 526 WHP, 451 WTQ
2006 350z (Sold) // 1990 300zx (Sold) // 1985 300zx 2+2 (Sold)

madwi

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

JLarson

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.

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2014 370z Touring Sport Magma Red MT // BP Single Turbo 6467 // 63mm TB's // Z1 Ported Upper Mani // RJM Pedal // Zspeed Stage 3 Clutch // 526 WHP, 451 WTQ
2006 350z (Sold) // 1990 300zx (Sold) // 1985 300zx 2+2 (Sold)

madwi

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.

JLarson

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!"

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2014 370z Touring Sport Magma Red MT // BP Single Turbo 6467 // 63mm TB's // Z1 Ported Upper Mani // RJM Pedal // Zspeed Stage 3 Clutch // 526 WHP, 451 WTQ
2006 350z (Sold) // 1990 300zx (Sold) // 1985 300zx 2+2 (Sold)