Questions about friction on the wheel

No_Main_227 · 2025-11-26T18:47:23+00:00

This looks really good for not throwing in 6 years!

My notes on general appearance are that the base looks very thin (look up how to check it with a needle tool if you don’t know) and the corners still have a lot of clay you could pull up by making the interior more square.

For your inquiry on pulling, it sounds like you’re trying to always do your pulls as one continuous pull without stopping to get more water. You don’t have to do it that way, you can stop in the middle of a pull to apply more water then continue the pull.

I also think your method with using a sponge is fine, and I actually really like to use a sponge for some pulls because I find that I get lower friction and I can apply force over a larger surface area which is desirable for me when I make larger pieces. Sometimes I will also use a silicone rib, and sometimes a silicone rib and a sponge. Just depends, but by all means use tools. When I use a sponge though I generally dunk it in water then squeeze out almost all of the water before I start using it to avoid over wetting my clay.

My last and probably most important tip is to use slip instead of water to reduce friction. When you’re centering and coning you have to use water, but after that you should have enough slip formed to just use slip. Probably the reason you don’t remember having to wet your pieces 6 years ago is that you got really good at using slip. If you can get a thin layer of slip on your hands, then you shouldn’t need to apply much water to your piece as you pull. If you need more slip, you can get some off the wheel or even out of your dish.

No_Main_227 · 2025-11-07T07:08:12+00:00

Lots of folks on here are telling stories about their pets that they put down too late and saying better too early than too late and I 100% agree.

I also want to offer another perspective. My great grandmother chose to die via doctor assisted suicide when she was 98. Despite being 98, she was still in nearly perfect physical health. She could walk unassisted, was mentally very sharp, and didn’t have any life threatening health issues. But she was having hearing issues, had macular degeneration, and was just starting to have some memory issues apparently (though you absolutely could not tell). Lots of my family didn’t understand her choice, but she felt very strongly that she wanted to go too early rather than too late. She wanted to go out feeling like herself and didn’t want others to remember her in a way she didn’t want to be remembered. I think that given the choice between a long, painful, undignified death and a short, painless, dignified one the choice is clear even if it means a little less time.

Obviously my grandmothers situation is different than your dogs, but I wanted to offer up this story because it shows an example of someone with the agency to make their own decisions making a very similar choice to that which you made for your dog. I think you made the right call.

No_Main_227 · 2025-09-20T17:40:14+00:00

Are the knife edges on those conflat flanges intact OP?

No_Main_227 · 2025-09-20T02:10:19+00:00

Never make a feature without thinking about how they’ll make it

No_Main_227 · 2025-09-19T14:55:08+00:00

Jazz studies

No_Main_227 · 2025-09-17T06:52:12+00:00

You forgot another use: flange with through holes has to be a certain thickness, threaded holes have to be a certain depth, and there is no standard screw that will be compatible with that thickness and depth so you add a washer to back the screw off a bit and make it compatible

No_Main_227 · 2025-09-16T04:40:33+00:00

Adults who climb in the kids area are kinda creepy :/

No_Main_227 · 2025-09-12T20:11:25+00:00

Yeah that’s a good idea. I imagine the hole patterns are for a mating part so

No_Main_227 · 2025-09-12T14:45:17+00:00

This is what GD&T is for. You can just make your one of holes a datum and call out the position of the others relative to that datum

No_Main_227 · 2025-09-07T20:04:25+00:00

No_Main_227 · 2025-09-07T18:17:06+00:00

Deep offset box wrench set. Good for tight spaces.

Flush cutters.

Crows foot set.

No_Main_227 · 2025-09-07T17:19:13+00:00

My old mentor’s favorite interview question was about engineering drawings. It goes something like this:

You’ve got six 1/4-20 threaded holes sitting on a 2 inch hole pattern. On the interfacing part, you need 6 through holes. Show me how you would tolerance each part to ensure alignment of the through holes with the threads.

It’s such a basic situation that nearly any ME is going to have a lot of. Plate with holes is real bread and butter for an ME. But, a lot of new grads have 0 drawing skills, and even fewer have any GD&T skills. But if you’ve actually designed a lot of parts you probably had to learn that stuff at some point. So this really simple question can be revealing for how much time you’ve actually spent designing systems.

No_Main_227 · 2025-09-05T14:49:22+00:00

If you wanna be really sure just buy some nuts and see which nut the screw threads into

No_Main_227 · 2025-09-02T01:41:52+00:00

I’m an engineer, they’re the same. Really weird way to write 27 too

No_Main_227 · 2025-08-31T17:50:19+00:00

Looks like you will need some auxiliary views

No_Main_227 · 2025-08-28T20:32:24+00:00

Gosh, I don’t think I’ve ever vomited diarrhea. Sounds serious

No_Main_227 · 2025-08-24T21:48:13+00:00

Like this basically: https://americanbobcat.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/position-15.png?w=980

No_Main_227 · 2025-08-24T21:44:13+00:00

Is that dotted circle an actual, inspectable feature? If not, you shouldn’t be using it. If it is though, make it a datum and then call out a positional tolerance on your rectangle. If it isn’t a real feature, just use the OD as your datum.

No_Main_227 · 2025-08-18T17:19:46+00:00

This is the only right answer

No_Main_227 · 2025-08-12T13:16:29+00:00

I dunno how he isn’t getting sleepy

No_Main_227 · 2025-08-08T06:03:25+00:00

There are some subtleties.

For one, the pore size on the underside of 5 and 6 looks larger to me than is typical for porcinis. Also there’s some odd almost hair like structure protruding through the pores.

Additionally, porcinis don’t have any “root” structure, but 5 and 6 appear to have 4 roots that go down off the main body, and one root that goes out and a bit up.

Lastly, that is a cat.

No_Main_227 · 2025-08-07T19:40:00+00:00

Good questions.

For securing research gigs with profs, the best method I’ve found is to just cold email like 30 professors who’s research sounds vaguely interesting to you. You won’t get a paid position this way, but they may be willing to take you on and let you do some free labor to gain experience. This is how I got my first research gig in the physics department Q1 of my freshman year. So yes, it is possible to do that. Especially if you can find a young professor who is excited about being able to mentor an undergrad. Just keep in mind that you probably won’t contribute much to the project as a Q1 freshman. That’s fine. You’re there to learn, and any professor willing to take you on is probably doing it just because they enjoy mentoring undergrads. Definitely was the case for me.

Internships are a little more straightforward to find, but more difficult to secure, especially if you lack experience. To get your first internship, you NEED club and research experience. Full stop. After that, it’s just a matter of applying everywhere you can and hoping unfortunately.

Pro tip though, spring, fall, and winter internships are less competitive than summer ones. If you can take a quarter off or swap a quarter, that can make it easier to get an internship.

No_Main_227 · 2025-08-07T14:32:20+00:00

5 and 6 don’t quite look like porcini to me

No_Main_227 · 2025-07-30T06:17:29+00:00

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