3d gages are the clear taillights of the next decade!

It’s rare to see this much automation in electronics. Typically, you see a hybrid approach, where automation makes some subcomponents it excells at making, and human workers do parts of the assembly that robots have a hard time with. Humans are better in terms on multi axis access.

You ever have that moment when you are jamming to some song that you really like (whatever your musical tastes are) and out of nowhere something awful happens, and at first you completely ignore the music from the shock, but then you realize it is still playing, and you just want to yell at the stereo “Not now,…

I knew it!

What in the world caused that? There seemed to be a pretty big bump right before everything started to go sideways, did he hit a car with his trailer?

Good luck, you may have to be very careful not to cut into the threads with the side of the bit.

That will only work if your holes are perfectly concentric with the original bolt. Chances are they aren’t.

One thing I learned is that ez out are not a good bolt extractor, especially for dealing with soft bolts (like brass) their “thread” tends to dig in, forcing the extractor into the broken thread, and spreading the broken bolt, wedging it ever harder into the surrounding metal.

The 2.0 spewing would have been fine, but cheating the tests is not.

As those ass hats no doubt know, the problem wasn’t so much their emission levels, but rather that they cheated their way thru the tests.

I prefer to relate torque to the experience of having to pee really bad when you have morning wood.

That’s silly. Steve Morris Engines hasn’t done anything, their engineers did, they just signed the check. No, their engineers didn’t do anything, the technicians assembly the engines built it, the engineers just made models. No, the technicians haven’t done anything, its the machinists that made the parts, the…

I’m reminded of the feeling I had when, as a wee lad, I procured my first titty mag, and stared confusingly at one of the pictures going “Those two things don’t go together”

Do what you want, its your money.

To you or I, that would be lost time. To Doug, its another column.

The risk scales up with the voltage. The higher the voltage, the more demands we place on insulators. Insulators break down over time, in ways that are not always obvious.

One thing for sure, it must really suck to be the iraqi government.

The current thru your body, sure. Which is determined by a combination of your bodies resistance and the voltage of the power supply, as long as the power supply can sustain the current, which a car charger certainly can.

You’re right in that the system can certainly be designed in a way that it wont electrocute anyone unless its damaged. However, your description of the required damage is a tad off. At high voltages you don’t need to lick the contacts, you don’t even need to touch them, just getting close is enough. The insulator…

Yes, the internal resistance of the power supply. The high voltage is only there as long as the terminals are open. You haven’t actually experienced it.