[TheForge] RE: Materials YAK (was:Bandsaw blade joint )

[Bob Ehrenberger]

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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 03:37:12 -0300
From: mspencer at tallships.ca (Mike Spencer)
Subject: [TheForge] Bandsaw blade joint (Was: Odd Vise)

[Begin YAK]

There was a retired engineer, now deceased, who summered here who told
of making multi-part objects, the pieces of which were serially joined
with solders of increasing MPs.  By gradually and uniformly raising
the temp in an oven, the things could be disassembled one stage at a
time.  Nice shop trick but he couldn't help me much with a hacking
approach because he'd worked in an industrial environment where they
just asked for what they wanted in the way of materials and getting
it was Somebody Else's Problem.

I only worked in that kind of environment for a single year.  If I (as
lowly techie at Famous Institution) called up BigCorp and asked for 40
cents worth of Product normally sold by the carload, it arrived the
next day with a ribbon on it.  Famous Inst. might, after all, buy 70
of BigCorp machines at $100K each that would each use 40 cents worth of
product every minute, 24/7, forever.  Alas, here in rural NS, getting
small bits and pieces of many industrial materials leads to yarns too
tedious and boring to tell while sober.

[End YAK]

- Mike

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When I was at Collins Radio  someone made a typo on an order and instead of
getting 1,000 #10 brass nuts they got 1,000 brass nuts that went about 2
pounds each. The killer was that they were non standard and had to be made
in a machine shop. They cost about $20 each. They ended up being used as
paperweights and sold in the surplus store for the scrap weight of the
brass.

One of the benifits of working there was that the employees could get
materials thru corprate supply at the 1,000 part price the company got.
Even us software guys that had no real connection to the manufacturing side
of the bussiness.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.