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Life's dangerous.

Roughly 30k cycles is typical. You can certainly design a spring to have infinite life. But it requires reducing average deflection, aka more spring with less deflection per turn.

People think garage door springs are like diffusing a bomb. It's not that bad if you are competent and have the correct equipment.

This is a wild proposition. Were taxis running directly after 9/11? This is sort of a problem if a society depends on them as a piece of critical infrastructure. If a city owns a b…

Large CNC machines that are not exportable under ITAR use GPS and other sensors to detect movement.

Sustainable forrest management requires frequent controlled burns to manage underbrush. Around Michigan this can be a yearly occurrence.

I have a new one. PM had determined that their work load is diminished if a project is killed. So they deliberately recommend that projects be terminated and or do things that woul…

I thought it was determined to be a glove finger knitting apparatus.

1000 pieces is a soft tool Millions are expected out of hard tooling.

Probably a bimodal distribution here in terms of homeschool education. Though the entire set is probably more useful and practical.

The four wheeling and automotive communities in general have been in disarray lately based on the instant gratification of Facebook groups, and chats such as slack and discord. Par…

That's like living in Ohio

Lessened visibility is due completely to rollover protection regulations. Vehicles around the 2010's+ require stronger A,B,C...pillars etc. Automakers complied with the regulations…

Here's an example, before WWII brake lines were made out of Monel, a corrosion proof material aside from galvanic. Nickel and copper being expensive and needed elsewhere the lines …

I would argue that median energy consumed per capita is a useful metric to measure standard of living.

There is a short window of human fertility. Let's assume you are "smart" and wait until you are out of college. You might start at 22 and have a little over 13 years until it's its…

Collective alignment of citizens with Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Deflation also increases the value of debt, so loans become harder to pay back. For those lucky enough to get a low interest rate loan a high inflation rate eats away at the value …

Link for article without paywall?

Somewhere you need an lox and methane inlet to the currently lit raptors that does not experience transient no fuel events. Such events would create situations of incorrect fuel ra…

Thank you

What is there to remember about tearing down an LS motor it's like Lego. It's also completely poka-yoked so it's idiot proof.

VW

You need an angel investor. AngelList aka wellfound might be a resource.