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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.
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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??
I am not sure of the US terminology but on this side of the water it would be Jerry-built or Jury-rigged.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdurand
do you have a sign on the bathroom door..."jerry can":D:hattip::clapping::thumbsup::rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by jdurand
No but that's a good one. Currently some of the construction team are out sick so neither of the bathrooms is installed yet. We're just setting up basics on the first floor so when we get there we'll have a place to live. My wife and I will take over a lot of the interior "decorating" like paint, floors, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by marksbug
Appliance installation was held off until all the interior walls got their multi layers and "nano wallpaper" (texturing and reinforcing). Now that's done our 'fridge, freezer, kitchen stove will come out of hiding and get hooked up as well as our bed being set up in the "kitchen office". The downstairs bathroom will be made functional (toilet, sink, shower) but we'll do the floor and painting later. The door will be a tarp until the floors are in, the door store guy said "no doors for you"...until we have floors to measure from.
We also have to do the epoxy floor coating for the machine shop. We looked into having a company do it, but they looked at the square meters and laughed. Not worth them showing up. They are busy with malls, stores, and the like.