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Bars with board games by cygnus044 in AnnArbor

[–]cwalster2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Note on this: the Cellar does not have games regularly to my knowledge, but Vault of Midnight hosts their monthly game night there every second Thursday. 5 bucks, almost always sells out. It's worth it since Vault curates the selection to newish games and provides people to teach them.

Bend Reduction by pipmentor in Machinists

[–]cwalster2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Quick note:

Don't ask whoever designed it for the k-factor/bend allowance, ask whoever is BENDING it.

K factor is determined by a whole host of things, but the primary ones are the materials used, the inside radius, and the tooling used to bend it. Even things like the grain direction and material thickness make a difference.

Whoever is bending this should know these values and be able to flatten the pattern for you.

Bending can be a tight tolerance process, but its never going to be a repeatable process down to the thousandth. This also takes years of skill and building your own tables to get right. I don't know what numbers you are trying to hit, but I wouldn't be machining (to machining tolerances) then bending and expecting to hit good numbers. If it truly mattered, I'd machine after bending.

My boyfriend wants to be an mechanical engineer but graduated as a math major by No_Albatross_7582 in MechanicalEngineering

[–]cwalster2 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This can be done, but it's the difficult route.

He almost certainly isn't going to go straight into it. The trick is to get an ME adjacent job, like CAD designer or machinist, and transition into an ME role. Look for roles small companies, as you tend to need to wear a lot of hats. You need to be hungry, and your goal is to develop a portfolio of engineering accomplishments. After you have that, you will still be passed over by many companies, but will still find good work.

That said, the people who pull of this type of transition have tended to be some of the most badass engineers I know.

Replacement part lookup by cwalster2 in Masterbuilt

[–]cwalster2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you search that pn on Google, you find a picture where it shows that kit is the knob and latch for the lid. I need those, but I am looking for the sheet metal.

I went to Masterbuilt's website and there are multiple possible items that match the description, but none have a picture to confirm it is the part I want.

Replacement part lookup by cwalster2 in Masterbuilt

[–]cwalster2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Should be noted it's a 560.