What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2020]
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Work/grad school research projects.
I got my engineering degree 3.5 years ago, went back to get my masters this fall. I get my masters 'tuition free' but work on a research project that my boss/professor applied for and received. I take 2 classes per semester and spend the rest of my day doing engineering stuff related to the project. I work more and make less than when I worked full time in industry but its a cool way to learn some more advanced skills and not go into metric loads of debt to try and further my career.
If you have ever wondered what all your tax dollars goes for, a very small pie goes to the department of energy and a very small amount of that pie goes to fund grant projects at universities and national labs. A very small amount of that pie then supports a few students to work on projects that professors write proposals for and receive 5% of the time.
Most of those projects are more risky 5-15 years to commercialization type projects that very few companies will fund internally because there isn't a clear path to making money in the short term and in todays world where stockholders or lawyers hold most companies by the balls and nobody does anything risky for fear of being sued or having their stock price pounded into oblivion, nobody takes any big risks. This particular project is in high efficiency fluid power (hydraulics). Other projects are electric to hydraulic pumps, controlling hydraulic systems (excavators mostly), and generally increasing efficiency of off highway equipment.
Overall its a cool way to spend a few years learning and working. Plus I actually get to get back into machining and some light fab work that we don't source out to tool and die shops.
Got to sniff some soldering fumes today
Tappy tap tap
Test stand's gettin ready
Always fun to see a part that you spent so many hours designing actually show up.
I got my engineering degree 3.5 years ago, went back to get my masters this fall. I get my masters 'tuition free' but work on a research project that my boss/professor applied for and received. I take 2 classes per semester and spend the rest of my day doing engineering stuff related to the project. I work more and make less than when I worked full time in industry but its a cool way to learn some more advanced skills and not go into metric loads of debt to try and further my career.
If you have ever wondered what all your tax dollars goes for, a very small pie goes to the department of energy and a very small amount of that pie goes to fund grant projects at universities and national labs. A very small amount of that pie then supports a few students to work on projects that professors write proposals for and receive 5% of the time.
Most of those projects are more risky 5-15 years to commercialization type projects that very few companies will fund internally because there isn't a clear path to making money in the short term and in todays world where stockholders or lawyers hold most companies by the balls and nobody does anything risky for fear of being sued or having their stock price pounded into oblivion, nobody takes any big risks. This particular project is in high efficiency fluid power (hydraulics). Other projects are electric to hydraulic pumps, controlling hydraulic systems (excavators mostly), and generally increasing efficiency of off highway equipment.
Overall its a cool way to spend a few years learning and working. Plus I actually get to get back into machining and some light fab work that we don't source out to tool and die shops.
Got to sniff some soldering fumes today
Tappy tap tap
Test stand's gettin ready
Always fun to see a part that you spent so many hours designing actually show up.
South Park has an episode for everything, season 23. Episode titled "Turd Burglars"...... aaaand on the afternoon commute yesterday, they were talking about feca transplants on the radio. Apparently, a well matched donor's poo in your digestive system can trigger rejections!
I like it! Maybe some of what you are doing now will show up in my job in a few years. You mentioned hydraulics and excavators, I am a dump truck driver and heavy equipment mover.
My blower on the Jeep was only working when it felt like it. Then it quit for good. I thought fuse, nope. Relay, can't find one. Then I thought the motor may be bad. Saw how hard it was to get at the motor but while researching I found that the relay was not with the rest. They stuck it up behind the glove box, close to the motor and resistor block. Popped it out and looked at the other relays for a match. Found one and swapped it in and BINGO the blower was blowing. Then I put that relay back and scrounged through my coffee cans of electrical stuff. I found a matching relay in a bunch of crap I saved when yanking a problematic alarm system out. It worked. Blower blows when it should. Cost: $0
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I had the same issue with my Jeep, I think I posted about it and the Just Jeep place in Toronto told me it a 2 week wait for the part to order even though itt's a common part cause of the junk Jeep parts they use, I got it for 2/3's of the price and in 3 days from Rock Auto
Sometimes if you dismount the tire/rim and then wire brush the bead surface, it cleans up enough to make a good seal.
That is what I do. I get an angle grinder and use a big nasty coarse round wire brush on it. I get it down to bare metal and then I paint the inside with Primocom underwater metals primer. If that is not enough you can then give the bead a good coat of bead sealer neoprene. Never leak again.
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