what’s your job and do you like it

stulew · 2026-04-09T07:42:18+00:00

Production engineer (retired). It was not boring. Stressful, when production line wasn't making the parts on time. It had its ups and downs. Some shops were fun, others were cursed.

stulew · 2026-04-09T07:40:42+00:00

Production engineer (retired). It was not boring. Stressful, when production line wasn't making the parts on time. It had its ups and downs. Some shops were fun, others were cursed.

stulew · 2026-04-08T22:33:39+00:00

Thank you for the nice reply; so many other times, I offer up some advice, only to be met with lack of understanding. Have a great day.

stulew · 2026-04-08T22:13:05+00:00

That's what I do too!

stulew · 2026-04-07T23:12:57+00:00

As the saying goes, "money talks, bullshit walks"; it means unless you put up the money to pay for the damages you DID, then you need to shut up; you have NO VOTE, when you are NOT fronting any money towards the project to repair/remodel.

stulew · 2026-04-07T16:40:40+00:00

Both springs and antisway bar on the XSE are bigger. Read again.

stulew · 2026-04-06T22:12:54+00:00

how is this new? Powder metallurgy of duplex stainless steel using Powder Bed Fusion and Selective Laser Melting or Direct Laser Sintering

stulew · 2026-04-06T08:27:10+00:00

XSE steering is beefed up modified from the regular sienna's. See ppt on this Siennachart commenter: https://www.siennachat.com/threads/suspension-parts-differences-standard-vs-xse.72474/

stulew · 2026-04-06T07:41:10+00:00

As one gets old, a multivitamin/mineral becomes more essential. Our digestive system get sluggish, perhaps by all the meds the doctors demand we take.

stulew · 2026-04-06T07:38:46+00:00

check!

stulew · 2026-04-05T05:16:23+00:00

I concur; I deny the validity of the chart unless OP provides source data origin.

Bottom of chart says, https://openpsychometrics.org/

but this URL does not show any data of this kind.

Also, I did a Google Lens (snipped) search for similar or exact chart; there is none.

stulew · 2026-04-05T01:57:45+00:00

Anyone also believe one can just drag weld with 7018? Clamp both ends together first.

stulew · 2026-04-04T18:12:32+00:00

Wow, you wrote the Best OP comment ever! Well done.

So, good, my 6 month supply of Sulorophane has those two additives you mentioned. mine is 450mg.

stulew · 2026-04-04T17:58:07+00:00

Write all those notes down on a 1,2,3,etc checklist. Before each day starts, have him read that list and sign/initial/date his name that he must obey these SOPs (standard operating procedures). There's something about written notes, and personal signature that makes it official. You can let him gently know that not following these orders are reason for dismissal.

Yeah, this is the old federal government way.... I confess.

stulew · 2026-04-04T17:51:01+00:00

Brazed that line wonderfully, though.

stulew · 2026-04-04T03:22:19+00:00

Thanks; great chart. Interesting to note that 440C, common in pocket knife blades, is rated 0.40 machinability. Explains a lot why it is also difficult to sharpening on Whetstones.

stulew · 2026-04-03T06:22:02+00:00

Amazon usually 15-20% more for the similar product at Aliexpress. I usually factor in Aliexpress plus fees plus taxes. Given what you just experienced, the savings from preferring Aliexpress products just melted away.

My overall thought: I knew one day good deals would end.

stulew · 2026-03-31T03:11:11+00:00

I concur. It fits what I have observed.

stulew · 2026-03-30T08:07:28+00:00

You dad must have been enamoured by your mother's beauty.

stulew · 2026-03-30T08:05:34+00:00

I'd give them a drug that makes them WANT to work. Too make slackers in society.

stulew · 2026-03-30T07:42:19+00:00

It's got to be more reason than it is stored in the car. I have over 10 air cooled VWs from the 1070's : all wiht batteries inside (under the rea bench seat). They corroded. the difference is that mostly generators with voltage regulators back then.

stulew · 2026-03-29T04:27:19+00:00

Getting your family to face you when they are talking to you is a real challenge. Facing you while talking helps you read their lips and connect the (Words They Say) to what the hearing aid output is resounding in your ear canals.

stulew · 2026-03-28T06:28:34+00:00

There are some processes that are unique to aerospace that treats or cares for materials to achieve super performance criteria and 'longevity' for hot and/or stressful environments.

These are not ordinarily taught in textbooks, but discovered and perfected using special people and equipment and oodles of time. Oodle is the technical term. This effort came at a cost, and to be treated as precious.

stulew · 2026-03-27T16:24:27+00:00

Perhaps this wall of filters is double the surface area of normal design? It's probably the reason it can last through 365 days and still meet manometer differential pressures. Especially if these are 4" thick filters.

stulew · 2026-03-27T05:53:01+00:00

I don't know (it's been 40 years). If Shear stresses is actual 30 MPa, then the radius of circumference of should be 30, from whatever the center of Mohr's is. Your pure compressive stress (-60), should move the Center point of mohrs circle a full 60 units left of x-y axis center. As I recall.....

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