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The life of a bolt in Formula racing. 2:52 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iptAkpqjtMQ
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...651#post118209
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...219#post106589
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...911#post100290
I paused to write, just seconds in.
Attention Cable TV: THIS Is How It's Made.
Ya falla?
Call me hopeless? Literally brought tears to my eyes.
Before 2008 it was reported that an F1 team spent $600 Million campaigning two cars.
Then is was a lot of ball bearings, now it's mostly zeros and ones.
It still fascinates me though.
In the early 1970s I was the factory manager in an F1 team. A few years ago I was visiting an F1 factory. The difference was incredible. Staff numbers now are 20 to 50+ times greater and the QC levels between then and now is hard to believe.
I am glad that I was involved back then rather than now though, in fact I wished that I had been involved 10 years earlier than I was.
Automatic anchor bolt production line. 8:20 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhml2XiMFPA
Instead of threading and pinning on a nut, couldn't you just form a head like with a nail...or am missing somethingQuote:
Originally Posted by Jon
Nail making
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpIQ2gT4B4Y
If I had to guess: These anchors are too long in conventional 4-slide or coldheading machines, not to mention twisting the helix. So large as production line is, maybe screwing a nut on and pinning is a reasonable simplification? Kind of scratching this old noggin here as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdurand
Now if they were J-bolts, such as that in a slab floor and mud sill, a nut is obvious.
You know what would make a great topic for a forum? Fasteners.
Fastener knowledge can be widely applied to virtually all DIY hobbies and technical fields. And, fasteners can be intellectually pursued for a lifetime without end.
For example, look at the motor oil forum BobIsTheOilGuy.com.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
If it wasn't for people spending their career researching the better bolt, oil, whatever, then we wouldn't have the things we now have.
Personally I tend to be more of a generalist, Jack-of-All-Trades. Fortunately my name is Jerry so anything I build is Jerry-rigged.
I wonder just howmany of those F1 bolts are rejected after making them??