Wasps have taken up residence in the driver’s side mirror of my WRX. I drove it to the store the other day and at least a couple of wasps went along for the ride. When I got back to the house, there was a wasp flying around, wondering where the car went. As soon as I parked, it landed on the mirror and crawled inside.…
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The trademark is on the name “Eleanor,” not the vehicle. The vehicle is irrelevant - it could be a bus or a truck or even a Yugo and they still would have had a claim because he was using the name “Eleanor.”
For some reason, people either love or hate the seats in our Outback. Despite all the electric adjustability, my wife can’t find a setting that she finds comfortable for more than 10 minutes.
I have a small stable of bikes. One is a recent cyclocross frame with canti brakes and moustache bars (and disc brake tabs that have never seen a proper disc brake mounted). Another is a late ‘70s/early ‘80s steel framed Schwinn that started off with 27" wheels, but after a cold set has been fitted with a pair of 26"…
Doggone it! I missed this one. Oh, well. Here are a few pics of my WRX being packed up after a camping trip.
I like to listen to audiobooks while I’m working in the yard. The latest series to occupy my ears is Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson. The series is a science fiction romp across the galaxy. The best part is that the author doesn’t take himself too seriously and has a lot of fun with the characters.
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Nightmare? Not so much. But I did learn over the last couple of years that people in downtown Houston love to screw up rush hour traffic by parking illegally and blocking what should be an open lane.
Thank you for keeping an open mind and reviewing the information for yourself. This paper might help satiate your curiosity: http://www-civ.eng.cam.ac.uk/cjb/papers/p20.pdf
The biggest hurdle for non-engineers is getting them to understand that it’s a pre-stressed structure, so the “logical” rules don’t apply. The biggest hurdle for engineers is one of semantics - a reduction in tension isn’t compression per se, however, the math shows that there is a negligible increase in tension in…
I’m glad you final admit that you don’t understand. If you choose to remain willfully ignorant, that is your choice. I suggest you avoid spreading your ignorance by posting your erroneous opinion instead of replying on the writings of a licensed engineer who did the work, passed peer review, and wrote the book on the…
Their typical reasoning:
Exactly! I used to be an assistant professor. The most difficult thing to teach was recognition of assumption errors. It’s the basic BS test. Does the answer you calculated so precisely make any sense? Do you really expect to get only 42 board-feet of lumber from a 20-acre stand of trees? Do you really think you can…
It’s the same kind of logic exercise used to teach the difference between correlation and causation in introduction to statistics.
Hah!
Most people make two mistakes when trying to understand this problem. The first is to simplify the system down to a single spoke. The second is to ignore the most important piece of information- the spokes are pre-tensioned. Don’t try to think through this on your own. Read what Jobst Brandt wrote about it. There are…
Read “The Bicycle Wheel” by Jobst Brandt. He did the finite analysis to prove that the hub does not hang by the spokes, it is supported by the bottom spokes. It’s counter-intuitive, but true. On a wheel with welded spokes (like the wheel in the video), the bottom spokes increase in compression when weight is applied.…
Welcome to the club! My oldest frame is a ‘79 Schwinn World Sport which I’ve upgraded with a Fuji crank and Shimano 105 brifters. I dropped the 27" wheels for a spare set of 26" MTB wheels. Braking is handled by long-reach caliper brakes with drop bolts to give them the extra half inch to align with the rim. After…
I was about to post the same thing!