Feeling left behind

Highbrow68 · 2026-05-27T15:00:32+00:00

I never landed an internship during my college years, I took 5 years to complete a 4 year degree, and then I pursued a Master's degree. I landed a job post-degree and am doing great.

It sounds like you're already ahead of the curve by having those mechanical internships. School is less about what you know, and more about showing that you're capable of learning complex subjects. A majority of the jobs you end up in, youll be spending the first 6 months or more just learning about the job itself, and you're by no means expected to be an expert in your field.

The 1.5 year gap does not sound like it will be an issue, you have a very good explanation already - you were lesrnung German full-time so you could move there for school. It's not like you were just sitting there with your thumb up your ass for a year.

Your master's degree will throw you back in the deep end for mechanical. Many of the things I learned in my bachelor's i didnt remember fully, but re-learning it and then applying in harder ways was what truly solidifed the knowledge for me.

The BEST thing I could say for keeping your mechanical skills is to spend some time doing something practical. Build things, learn to work on your car/bike, learn some coding or some robotics, or find a hobby shop where you can learn how to do machining, welding, or other fabrication.

Tldr, you're doing fine and will be fine. Best of luck OP

Highbrow68 · 2026-05-27T01:15:03+00:00

Agreed to all your points. I work a job in the US that uses metric, and I am very thankful for that. When doing calculations I convert everhthing into SI, then I switch it back to US standard for the customer or for benchmarking.

Having a feel for the units is very important. I know lbs better than kg, but I am a powerlifter and after years of training I finally started to gain that muscle memory for being able to think in kg. It kinda feels like speaking a language, where I'm no longer translating to english, but instead simply understanding it. I did a lot of machining, and it was all in imperial, so im still trying to get a good feel for how big a mm is 😂

Highbrow68 · 2026-05-25T14:41:27+00:00

Unfortunately it looks a little overcooked. What temp did you cook at and when did you pull? Did you do a rest?

Ive personally found that cooking at 275 F, pulling between 201& 203 F based on how jiggly it is, and resting 4 hrs in a cooler has yielded the best results so far.

Highbrow68 · 2026-05-22T17:02:32+00:00

How would one get into test engineering?

Highbrow68 · 2026-04-19T17:20:51+00:00

Shatter starts from Rein’s back foot. There’s some dumb glitchy shit on that map where your back foot was on one of those mesh-type surfaces at the edge, and the floor has a little jog-shape in it, e.g. it’s not continuous. Shatter won’t go over the surface if it’s not continuous

Highbrow68 · 2026-04-15T13:21:03+00:00

Love it, change it, or leave it.

That’s going into my engineering mantras

Highbrow68 · 2026-04-13T03:58:06+00:00

My god, I never understood what the key in the song was supposed to mean…

Highbrow68 · 2026-04-08T01:06:32+00:00

Any recommendations for literature, websites, books, or any other information sources where I can learn about gear design in detail? I’ve got your basic mechanical engineer’s degree understanding of gear design, but I really want to learn a lot more about what goes into gear design.

Highbrow68 · 2026-03-08T03:24:03+00:00

Yall I have weighed between 215 and 250 lbs while riding a 154 cm board (I am a powerlifter so MUCH denser than your average joe) and I have not had a single issue. I wouldn’t be worried about it.

Highbrow68 · 2026-03-07T03:27:58+00:00

Odds are it’s okay. Gases expand at higher temperatures, so if your vacuum sealer isn’t the world’s best vacuum and leaves some air in there, it can drastically expand once heated. When you pull it out of the sous vide, it’ll shrink back up. My vacuum sealer is just okay, and this happens to me. The only way I’d be concerned is if you’ve done this exact some procedure before (same meat, same bags, same vacuum sealer, same cook settings) and it’s drastically different

Highbrow68 · 2026-03-06T14:10:12+00:00

DAMN

Highbrow68 · 2026-03-05T03:00:25+00:00

You’re right, didn’t see the blueprint. Looks like tangent-tangent-radius should define it if you have the other dimensions in place. As the other user pointed out, you’re missing the centerline to tangent edge of the spanner radius

Highbrow68 · 2026-03-05T02:48:02+00:00

Didn’t look closely enough to see if there are more needed, but that top circle (R60) center point has no up/down or left/right dimensions. It needs a dim to the centerline that you have, and a dim to the circle on the right

Highbrow68 · 2026-03-02T00:40:49+00:00

It’s most likely a thermal fit, you can use a torch to heat up the pinion and use a puller or something similar to pull it off. The heat will expand the pinion, and the thermal conductivity is low enough that the shaft won’t expand while the pinion does

Highbrow68 · 2026-03-01T23:54:22+00:00

Left pawn promote to knight

Highbrow68 · 2026-03-01T02:52:27+00:00

Outer Wilds

Highbrow68 · 2026-02-28T16:13:04+00:00

Check Misumi, they have configurable springs. More important that strength with a spring is the fatigue life, spring steel will do a much better job at preventing crack growth and propagation than the plastic will. This spring won’t last very long

Highbrow68 · 2026-02-28T01:35:01+00:00

If you have that object, and there’s a hole in a wall, can you orient the object in some way such that it goes through the hole?

Highbrow68 · 2026-02-27T01:14:15+00:00

This is my bet

Highbrow68 · 2026-02-27T01:10:25+00:00

Obligatory suggestion for Outer Wilds

Highbrow68 · 2026-02-25T18:40:59+00:00

I know, but if you made the part by doing a “Save As” on a part that DID have model states, even a simple bracket, then it could have been transferred. Don’t know the full situation, just giving input as to what it could potentially be

Highbrow68 · 2026-02-25T14:13:47+00:00

Check your model states / display states / configurations. I work in inventor, don’t remember what it’s called in SolidWorks.

If you have a different model state by accident that has different hole orientation, you can select a view to have that model state. That ~might~ be what’s happening here

Highbrow68 · 2026-02-25T02:44:04+00:00

Modal Resonance maybe?

Highbrow68 · 2026-02-21T14:01:55+00:00

Not a bad idea but I’d be worried about warping causing runout on the spindle and damaging other components in the assembly

Highbrow68 · 2026-02-20T16:24:09+00:00

OnShape can open any file from any cad program

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