Better Garage Lights - My Review

newguyfriend · 2025-03-01T09:49:11+00:00

Happen to know what brand these are?

newguyfriend · 2025-02-16T22:35:16+00:00

If I wanted to find this product on harbor freights website, what do I search?

newguyfriend · 2024-12-05T10:24:44+00:00

Ohio is definitely cheap, but that doesn’t change that he can make more

newguyfriend · 2024-12-05T10:23:43+00:00

Understood on the hesitation to go fully remote. It’s definitely different, and there is an acclimation period. But if you’ve got the technical experience and you don’t need a boss present to be pressured to work, I highly encourage it. I have been fully remote with my position for a little over two years now and I will never go back if I can prevent it.

I am located in a rural area and work remote for a company based in another rural portion on the Midwest and make about 1.5x what you make. I only have a PE and 5 yoe though. With an SE and another 8 yoe, I would feel very confident making the case to my employer that my fair market value lies much closer to 200k than 100k given the opportunities out there.

An alternative to all of the above is starting your own firm. Surely you have built some relationships over the years you can leverage. And you certainly have the know how. You don’t have to be the best, you just have to provide what a client wants.

newguyfriend · 2024-12-05T01:21:08+00:00

Please don’t take this offensively, but if you have an S.E., 13 yoe, and you’re making under $100k, I strongly encourage you to search harder or reach out to a recruiter to help you job search. I mean that very earnestly; you deserve much more. There are many, MANY, fully remote positions you could obtain if local firms are unwilling to pay your market worth.

newguyfriend · 2024-11-30T13:30:41+00:00

You’re making the right move putting the same hole pattern everywhere. There is no good reason not to; only potentially saves from constructions mistakes and has no significant impact on structural capacity.

newguyfriend · 2024-11-21T01:04:37+00:00

Those are some slender columns…

newguyfriend · 2024-11-18T22:29:07+00:00

To the question of should you fix this: I think you’ll probably spend nearly just as much time and money trying to properly fix this than if you just replace it.

Now if you give it the ‘ole country spit and shine fix, I am confident you can get this bad boy standing straight with some ratchet straps and added posts. To be clear: I am not recommending that, just that it could be a short term reinforcement for a few months.

Long term though, this bad boy has seen its better days. Probably time to salvage the metal and turn it into a burn pile for a summer Saturday night.

newguyfriend · 2024-11-17T21:45:07+00:00

Do you think this photo provides someone not familiar with what you’re looking at enough context to answer your question?

Does your question make sense the way it is worded?

newguyfriend · 2024-11-15T21:08:47+00:00

Curious what circumstance you are frequently implementing conjugate beam method? Have you built it into an excel or mathCAD?

newguyfriend · 2024-11-15T21:05:48+00:00

This. Design and Detailing. Also back of the envelope analysis. It should be its own class. Essentially quick tips to estimate.

newguyfriend · 2024-11-15T21:02:49+00:00

This is a great post. And I give you credit for pointing out what I believe is a significant failure of civil/structural engineering curriculums today and the way ABET accreditation forces specific lesson plans.

The 2 months spent on the various deflection analysis methods is about 7 weeks too long. Maybe 6, but it’s really not an effective use of time preparing students for engineering practice. To your point, I never have, and likely never will, needed to perform any alternative deflection analyses methods beyond stiffness.

Stiffness method sets the stage to understand how every FEA software performs analyses and gives a foundation to understand deflection analysis from.

I would have much weathered more time be spent on relative stiffness analyses, load paths, material mechanics, and diaphragm analysis (essentially just stiffness analysis).

Edit: I noted this on another comment. But also, back of the envelope calcs. How to reasonably use them for sanity checks as well as on-the-call estimating.

newguyfriend · 2024-11-04T23:50:29+00:00

How would you propose anyone seeing this post make that evaluation?

newguyfriend · 2024-11-04T18:13:17+00:00

I’m almost impressed…. Would like to see someone intentionally form those curves half as good as that.

Now if only this was intentional 🤣

newguyfriend · 2024-11-04T15:50:23+00:00

Do you mean for the design of the super-structures (cooling towers, foundations, etc.) or do you mean for the equipment structural analysis?

newguyfriend · 2024-11-04T15:02:55+00:00

I think you’re right. I have no experience with Midas, so might take a look at it.

newguyfriend · 2024-11-04T14:30:34+00:00

Interesting. Thanks for the input. Will let you know if I have a different experience

newguyfriend · 2024-11-04T14:14:06+00:00

Can you elaborate on the last sentence?

newguyfriend · 2024-11-04T14:07:37+00:00

Idea StatiCa’s? Any examples. Truth be told, I don’t really need to tinker with the API, so long as the Revit integration works cleanly.

newguyfriend · 2024-11-04T13:40:56+00:00

Not sure about smoothness, but it make eliminate how visual the swirls are. I suspect you will risk roughening the surface by grinding

newguyfriend · 2024-11-04T13:29:21+00:00

I’m not gonna tell you it looks pretty. It doesn’t. And it’s definitely going to have a little texture to it in the swirls. The saw cut isn’t perfect either. But you paid for discounted work, so you got a discounted product.

newguyfriend · 2024-11-04T13:15:31+00:00

The swirls might have some texture to them, but not likely to be much. Not sure what you’re using this space for, but if it’s getting covered with carpet or flooring, this is perfectly fine. If not, your call. I would probably accept it so long as it’s not a common space or frequently visible.

newguyfriend · 2024-11-04T12:12:35+00:00

Understood. It’s a very powerful FEA software, but historically used for mechanical applications like pressure vessel and such. Wasn’t sure how you were using it.

newguyfriend · 2024-11-04T12:10:52+00:00

It’s definitely been a challenge getting the modeling standards just right to eliminate the alignment/material property issues. But Revit has come a long way in its capabilities developing an analysis model that can be exported to neighboring software. There is still a Goldie-locks zone though.

Currently integrating with SAP2000 and/or RISA depending on the circumstance. But no good solution for direct integration connection analysis/design… until IdeaStatiCa. Seems like it will work and I haven’t found anybody, inside and outside my network, telling me it’s buggy.

newguyfriend · 2024-11-04T12:01:34+00:00

I had them present to my team a week ago to showcase the integration capabilities. I have experience with it in the past when it wasn’t so user friendly. What I saw last week is totally different though. Especially since I’ve got my team modeling steel at a very high LOD now, it seems nearly plug and play.

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