NFE?
New unicrown or old biplane?
Isnât there supposed to be little gap between the caliper and the part youâre measuring? that would fix your reading :jan:
[quote=Wintage Townie]Does Glen have someone else making the forks?
(Not shown - lopsided crown & glob of painted-over flux.)
Am I being unreasonable? I feel as though I paid way too much money for that sort of department store bike bullshit.[/quote]
So youâve gotta squeeze the blades together to get the wheel in? That sucks.
FWIW my unicrown fork is pretty much perfect. So maybe he does have the work experience kid in doing some brazing at the momentâŚ
Iâve heard of doing this on cracked cymbals but would it work for this? Or is yâall yanking my chain
Iâm pretty sure itâs legit. I think the round hole kills the stress riser.
[quote=aek]Iâm pretty sure itâs legit. I think the round hole kills the stress riser.[/quote]The same reason you do it on cymbals.
yep and if youâre a nervous flyer you can rest assured that plenty of old planes are probably riddled with cracks with the ends drilled.
my first professional job as a qualified enginerd was looking at hole saw cores that had been made at the ends of cracks in a bridge to check that they had got the crack tips, bridge is still there
yep and if youâre a nervous flyer you can rest assured that plenty of old planes are probably riddled with cracks with the ends drilled.
my first professional job as a qualified enginerd was looking at hole saw cores that had been made at the ends of cracks in a bridge to check that they had got the crack tips, bridge is still there[/quote]
I was doing National Science Foundation work last week with the University of the West Indies in Barbados, and the team was basically a global Top 30 for coastal climate change adaptation, and I was working with five or so coastal engineers. Wizards in their field. And the math and science involved in coastal engineering blew my mind. On a $10M beach armoring project, theyâd spend 10% of the budget building a 1 million dollar scale model of the shoreline just to test things out to make sure it worked, and itâd save the client $9M at the first hurricane because it wouldnât fail and erase the neighborhood behind it. All of them had incredible war stories about projects failing. One guy said that most of their jobs are replacing or repairing other failed infrastructure projects from a time when the physics of wave action and storm surge werenât as well understood.
I am 100% sure that engineering is fucking magic and I no longer want to know the knifeâs edge that critical infrastructure walks between total collapse and thankless perfection. I want my naivete back. But kudos to the enginerds that make the world go round, what a hard job.
[quote=Wintage Townie]Does Glen have someone else making the forks?
(Not shown - lopsided crown & glob of painted-over flux.)
Am I being unreasonable? I feel as though I paid way too much money for that sort of department store bike bullshit.[/quote]
This wouldnât have happened on an Endpoint. Also it might be because I just woke up bout those derpouts look funky. I dunno.
Theyâre forward facing to avoid futzing with the dicks
Like an idiot, I let my bike fall against a pole:
Pretty big dent. Iâm inclined to yolo and keep riding. Should I try to get it fixed?
That truly sucks, but that totally looks like a yolo. No creasing at all.
Your local shop should have tubing blocks that will pop that out
Or get an endpoint
Iâd yolo it.
Or get an endpoint.
uuuuuuuuuuuuugh
sell it to me and get an endpoint. Iâll yolo it for you.
you pretty much just lightly clamp the dented section in one of these, twist it around the tube a bunch, and progressively tighten/repeat
How would you know exactly where to put the block in relation to the dent? Seems like it would be really easy to crease it beyond the point of return
youâre using the block to slowly squish in the high spots at the edges
as those ridges get smoothed in, the dent gets shallower
