Member postings for Nick Wheeler

So where does a lack of trust feature?

I would suggest that anyone who invokes 'it's just common sense' should be ignored for eternity because they are deliberately exposing their ignorance.

Interesting, as my limited experience with gasless is that I wouldn't even consider it for sheetmetal. Which leaves it for things like gates, fences and similar where it is rarely as good or user friendly as stick.

I'd rather see a driver speeding with a trailer than some of the other stupid things they do. I spotted one while I was refuelling, and asked the driver what was holding the car onto the trailer. He looked at me as if I was mad, and said "the handbrake is on" This was in a motorway service station. Trailers rarely get any maintenance until something breaks - boat trailers are particularly bad for the wheels falling off when the bearings break up - or the ancient tyres finally fail to hold air.

Roof racks are used just as badly; it's not uncommon to find two people reaching out of the car windows to hold a sheet of ply to to the roof.....

Edited By Nicholas Wheeler 1 on 14/01/2023 13:34:05

True. But it seems you're surprised that people would do such a thing?

You could also use 'the several in pontificating idiot make up for it.'

Our written assessment of the course was that we considered it insulting that a series of tiresome cliches was supposed to be both educational and motivational. The facilitator(another management w*nk-word) reported us for being obstructive. Which was a surprise, because it was first time he'd used a complex word correctly....

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 13/01/2023 12:14:13

Would one of those come before, after or be messily squished in the middle of a paradigm shift?

Probably.

I definitely do.

You're trying to apply logic and a traditional English vocabulary to it.

Which is wrong, because in this case revert back is used instead of reply. Hence the nails down a blackboard reaction.

A conversation with my cousin, whose PHD is in renaissance art, a few years ago:

her - you don't understand art.

me - true. But more importantly, I don't care.

Of course it is. But evolution isn't always a good thing, or easy to watch. Just look at how uninformed use of what used to be precise words has thoroughly devalued them; the man with a hammer and two screwdrivers who can't fix your washing machine isn't an engineer, even though his employer calls him that.

Lucky you. When you do, it will probably be in an Indian accent.

These are all used by people who don't understand that using more, or more complicated words instead of simple constructions doesn't not make them appear cleverer.

If you think 'reaching out' is bad, wait until somebody 'reverts back' to you. That will really set you off

You have far more faith in people than I can manage. I don't want to think about how much time I've spent waiting while the cover provider's customer argues with them about having to pay me to winch their car out of a ditch, arrange another vehicle to get their immobilised car out of a multi-storey, that the insurance recovery only covers the car and not them, they need to pay for the fuel to get them going even though it's their fault they ran out, that they only bought the basic cover and have to pay for distance that isn't covered or any number of other scenarios.

Anyone who has ever dealt with the general public in such situations will know that many of them expect their £100 breakdown cover to provide a man to arrive within seconds, wave a magic wand that converts their 20 year old barely maintained piece of shit into a shiny new Range Rover and supply a gourmet picnic to make up for inconvenience. And they're the ones that didn't lie about their circumstances.

Who is going to pay the rate necessary for them to make a profit spending a couple of hours with each car using £50k worth of equipment?

It's five years since I quit as a recovery driver, and the companies were struggling with the low rates the breakdown providers paid - a years cover ought to have been about three times what it was.

Ever looked at Myford prices anytime in the last twenty years?

Don't you have a fastener supplier near you that sells small quantities?

Fusion doesn't allow you to mix them; once you've 'deleted' the timeline, you can't go back. I've been using it for about six years now, and have never found any reason to do this. Although I did install SE, it needs more time than I can justify to undo the F360 thinking, and particularly the UI, to benefit. When using synchronous mode, do all of the parts that were created using projected geometry still update when the original is changed? That is fundamental for the way I design things.

M10x1 is actually very, very common. Walk outside, and pretty much every car you see will have a couple of dozen of them in the brake and clutch plumbing. Mazda use it for a number of mechanical parts on MX5s - so much so that I bought a tap for modifying them to fit a friend's kitcar project.

Similarly, M12x1.5 has been a common wheel bolt and fuel fitting thread for decades, even though it is considered odd in 'normal' engineering

You can use F360 in a similar way by turning off the timeline. But this does make creating robust, easily understood models more difficult. That's not particularly important with a simple part, but when working with a complicated assembly being able to track the development is far more important to me.

In F360, you hold the left mouse button down, and it gives a list of all the selectable edges, profiles, faces etc for you to pick.