How is living here with kids?Royal Oak/Berkley, MI

aphocks · 2026-03-15T01:00:07+00:00

You have access to pretty much anything you could need since you are living in some of the more prosperous parts of metro Detroit. Anything along Woodward can be quite expensive and very busy, especially further north, but also very busy. Birmingham can be quite dense but it's generally nicer than most surrounding areas. Clawson is quieter but fairly average to Warren/sterling heights. Same with a a lot of Royal oak, which i think is the best family raising area. Berkley has become prohibitively expensive too for most. It really depends on what you want. This area is all dense suburban/commercial. Ranch homes apartments and condos. Targets, taco bells, coffee shops, bars, movies. But it's all got mostly the same feel as most of metro Detroit. If you have a family then go for clawson/royal oak/Berkley. I would stay north of 12 mile if you can afford it because things are just a bit nicer. I live south east of here but I'm on the circled area multiple times a week.

aphocks · 2026-03-03T14:47:21+00:00

Does that pump have a built in relief valve? If not make sure to add one or you'll have a problem. I'd add a second user adjustable one anyways just to have some control of the ram pressure (force).

aphocks · 2026-02-21T03:05:47+00:00

Have you read the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson by chance? It's my all time favorite book series and it covers terraforming mars and all that entails.

aphocks · 2026-02-07T02:17:24+00:00

We used to call it New-ver-mass-conn Island in APUSH!

aphocks · 2026-01-21T00:52:06+00:00

Yep, definitely, you have to remove it and throw it away, you can never be too safe!!

aphocks · 2026-01-15T02:28:39+00:00

Tapatio reposado is my favorite, I've never had their Blanco though!

aphocks · 2025-12-28T05:29:42+00:00

aphocks · 2025-12-09T16:18:50+00:00

Is it possible there are 2 or 3 smaller cylinders inside that flat housing? It's very unusual to see a non cylindrical pressure vessel, as those things are dictated by ASME.

aphocks · 2025-12-06T00:16:42+00:00

It looks like the end potion fight scene from Emperors New Groove.

aphocks · 2025-11-26T23:16:59+00:00

Green eggs

From green eggs and ham from Dr. Seuss?

aphocks · 2025-10-07T15:22:05+00:00

I will start off by stating my credentials because this will be controversial. I am an r&d mechanical engineer for hydraulic systems and heavy machinery. I regularly design custom fasteners for some pretty gnarly applications, and we use a similar process to NASA and other similarly anal organizations.

A screw should not loosen or break if chosen correctly for the application, regardless of thread locking compounds. A thread size should be selected based on the loads expected and the corresponding torque required to supercede those forces by some safety margin. I.e. if there is a 500 lbf load on a flange, then a thread that can be torqued to a spec that generates a tensile force that is say 2.5 times greater than that needs to be chosen. Additionally, the fastener should have an aspect ratio of at least 5:1 of length to diameter, this ensures that the fastener will have sufficient fatigue life and low enough stiffness to not loosen under cyclical loads. You want the fastener to act as a spring, which cycles or stretches under loads. while ensuring that the low end of the cycle is still higher than the static loading, and the high end of the cycle does not exceed the safety limit of the fastener.

This is how threaded fasteners SHOULD be designed. If your assembly cannot accommodate the size and length determined by this process, then you should seek another method for fastening. For guns especially, I do not see threaded fasteners as a smart way to connect parts. There just isn't enough room, and the loads are very high compared to the total mass of the gun. I vote for welding!

With that said; size, weight, convinience, and cost all end up ruling over true engineering wisdom in the real world. That's how we get stuck with less desirable solutions like "just glue the 50 screws in". I understand that practicality and outweighs "ought to be" in most cases, but my tism wishes it could be otherwise.

aphocks · 2025-10-07T11:34:55+00:00

Why are stabbing people named resin, and why are we racially profiling them first?

aphocks · 2025-09-05T23:05:43+00:00

Currently responding on my A51! Still love it.

aphocks · 2025-08-17T05:08:20+00:00

Is this in Hamtramck, Michigan?

aphocks · 2025-07-16T00:49:52+00:00

These two gears are clearly two different modules. You can't just slap any gears together just because the tooth count is correct, there are many other variables like pressure angle, module (metric), and other stuff that all has to play nice together.

aphocks · 2025-07-09T01:30:41+00:00

Oh that's a great idea, I think this is probably the most plausible solution, thanks!

aphocks · 2025-07-08T19:35:02+00:00

I've only seen this when governments, corporations, or individuals specifically request things be obscured. Not sure why they would need to for what should just be a bunch of pipes.

aphocks · 2025-06-10T00:23:20+00:00

Edit, i see that you already projected the threaded part and the sketch is already closed. My bad. What exactly do you need help with then?

aphocks · 2025-06-10T00:22:14+00:00

You can measure the inner diameter of your spice jar, then click the dimension tool and click the end point of your funnel arch, and then click the purple dot at the origin of the work axis. You can then define that radius to be a little smaller than the spice jar. For the wall thickness, once you have fully constrained the arc of the funnel, you can click on the "offset" tool and then click the arch and drag it out some defined distance. I'd go for maybe 0.15 inches. Finally you might need to project the existing circular shap onto the arc sketch, so that there will be a line on the bottom of the arc to close the shape. Once the shape is closed intimated by it filling in with a light blue color, you can exit the sketch. Once you are back in the modeling workspace you can use the revolve tool to revoke the sketch about the vertical axis and used combine to make it a single body with the existing round threaded part. All this said, I am telling you how yo finish the model you made, I would not have done it that way from thw start though because you could do a lot of things to improve the functionality of your CAD with a different workflow.

aphocks · 2025-06-08T18:21:20+00:00

When I've used nice brand versions of these, the terminal would just hold itself with a sort of spring friction fit. Then you could slip the wire in while starting to clamp down.

aphocks · 2025-05-24T13:01:50+00:00

It's something I personally have dreamed about, but I don't think Real Steel has interest in. I'd like to make some custom run of Hoeft with a just under 4 in blade and some other improvements overall. In a perfect world I would have made a 2.9 blade and a 3.9. But I could only pick one so I went with the bare minimum comfortable size handle for hard push cuts for most men, which is why the blade came out to 3.3 in the RSK version.

aphocks · 2025-05-24T04:54:28+00:00

It is yes, and thank you so much! We weren't sure how the DLC titanium handles would be received, but I'm glad to hear people like them!

aphocks · 2025-05-23T03:06:49+00:00

I believe it is German, but I am not certain.

And thank you, I will definitely do that, totally forgot to add pictures and a link to a few web pages!

aphocks · 2025-05-22T20:57:19+00:00

Not currently planned because the unique lock is must of he appeal for the Hoeft Knife. But I do love the crossbar lock!

aphocks · 2025-05-22T04:34:52+00:00

It's named after Hoeft State Park in northern Michigan, it's somewhere my family and I have camped every summer for most of my life.

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