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

JLarson

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.

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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

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...

madwi

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

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

Ahhh the good 'ol days.

Leingod

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.

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Leingod

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

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JLarson

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...

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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)

madwi

Thats funny!

StevenSlice

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

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madwi

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.
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.