And the sad thing is that we are loosing those kind of craftsmen at an alarming rate. The young ones dont want to be tough hand skills any more. You cant blame them because on a day to day basis, one cannot provide enough income to survive just on hand skills. The market is just to fast and competitive.
On 2014-07-21 00:28, Marcus Bowman wrote: > So here's a true tale of pipe bending: > > A friend has a factory for bending stainless steel pipes, and not a cnc > machine in sight. In fact, he's hardly computer literate at all. But he's > been really clever engineer for more than 50 years. > One day, he got a call from a representative of the military arm of a > (friendly) foreign country. They wanted to know if he could bend a special > small diameter pipe for their army motorcycles operating in the Arctic. They > had tried all the big boys and no-one could do it. Just a short pipe, but > with a couple of curious bends. > Never a man to say no, he asked them to send a drawing and some pipe. > Then he sat down with a pair of pipe bending pliers like the ones you use for > bending brake pipes on a car, and made a beautiful pipe, just like the > drawing, and sent it back to them. > After a couple of days he got the phone call. > We like your pipe, they said. In fact no-one has been able to do this job, > and we don't know how you did it, so we would like to pay you for the program > you have created for your bender. > Ah well, said my friend, that's a very special machine, so that industrial > secret has to remain with me. I will make you a batch of pipes, though. > I think he ended up making a few hundred of these very special pipes. He sat > at his bench on Saturday and Sunday for a few weeks, and made enough to go on > a decent holiday. > Everyone was happy. > And not a single line of code... > > Marcus > > > On 20 Jul 2014, at 22:39, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > >> The trick with rocket engines is to prevent them from burning themselves up >> while burning the maximum amount of fuel. Therefore, it's a complicated >> fluid dynamics/thermal management problem, with fuel lines cooling the >> combustion/expansion chamber, turbo pumps working against pipe and flame >> back pressure, etc. >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Marius Liebenberg <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I was gonna say that all those pipes. What the hell could they all do? >>> >>> On 2014-07-17 20:48, Marcus Bowman wrote: >>>> No; but I wouldn't mind a shot at the CNC pipe bender they used... >>>> >>>> Marcus >>>> >>>> On 17 Jul 2014, at 19:24, Kirk Wallace wrote: >>>> >>>>> http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/14-179_rs_25_installation_0.jpg >>>>> >>> http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/july/nasa-begins-engine-test-project-for-space-launch-system-rocket/ >>>>> -- >>>>> Kirk Wallace >>>>> http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ >>>>> http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/ >>>>> >>>>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and >>>>> search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck >>>>> Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code >>>>> search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! 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