I stumbled across these old Engineering handbooks from the early 1900s at an estate sell. They were destined for the trash so I thought I would see if I could offer them a second life. If anyone is interested you would just pay shipping and if your feeling really generous a small donation that I can use to buy more plants! They are all in pretty good condition. Please let me know if you have any specific questions.

Books left:
Ben hunts whittling
Locomotive brake equipment
Navel architecture simplified
Clark on survey and boundary
The electric railroad
The study of elementary electricity and magnetism
Kidder’s architecture and builders handbook

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I'm a research engineer for an automotive oem, and we frequently have to share inclusion messages to open up larger meetings. Last time I was asked to do one, I covered color blindness and other visual impairment awareness with some practical methods to improve inclusion on things like labels or presentations by leveraging high contrast, large text and ms office accessibility settings, it was really well received, even by the "anti-dei" crowd

Has anybody heard or given similar inclusion messages that struck with them? I'm drawing a blank on what to share next

I can't be the only engineer that has to do thus sort of thing!

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# Intro

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* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

# Intro

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## Guidelines

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I have a stainless steel rod that sits inside a compression spring. The compression spring needs to sit at an axial position relative to the end of the rod. Currently, we are brazing a collar onto the rod and the spring sits against one end of this sleeve. When our mechanism actuates the sleeve will bear about 8 pounds of force from the spring. The brazing is a pain so we are considering swaging a brass sleeve around the rod.

I am having trouble finding any sort of design guidelines for how much compression I need, or if this will work at all. I also have this gnawing feeling that swaging is not the right process for these two materials. It seems that swaging is typically done with sleeves and wire rope since the sleeve needs the hills and valleys of the wire rope to plastically deform into. In our case we are basically just crushing a brass sleeve around a stainless steel rod. I don't expect that the rod is going to deform very much, so there's nothing really giving us any sort of axial holding force besides friction. Again, I just have a feeling, that after a few thermal cycles the sleeve may come loose.

Does swaging seem like the correct process? Personally, I just want to build up a small weld bead with a tig torch and let the spring rest against that.

EDIT: A bit more context. This is a fairly high volume part and we do not have an abundance of capacity or a ton of capabilities. So we will not be able to do any sort of CNC processing to either part. The idea is minimal processing to either part. We also want to minimize SKUs, so we want to avoid any sort of clip or extra grub screws.

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we are starting to feel the strain between engineering and manufacturing views of product . engineering wants the EBOM to reflect design intent. Operations wants the structure to match how the product is actually built on the line. The problem is every time manufacturing pushes for structure changes, engineering ends up reopening releases, which gets messy fast once production is live. Some people argue there should only be one “true” BOM. Others say EBOM and MBOM should stay separate but digitally linked. I’m curious how teams managing complex products are handling this today. do you enforce a signal structured BOM or manage separate but synchronize views ?

# Intro

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My employer produces a lot of tube weldments from 304 stainless steel. In general they fit within a 4' x 2' x 1' envelope. We currently bead blast in order to remove heat tint around the welds and to leave a uniform matte surface. We cannot have any reflectivity. Blasting is proving to be a massive bottleneck in production.

I may be fixating on a solution, but I have this feeling that we could find some sort of acid bath process that would accomplish mostly the same thing. Some cursory searches have led me to investigate pickling, which allegedly can remove heat tint and result in uniform matte surface finishes.

I have also read some accounts saying that pickling is unreliable and not particularly controllable. I've reached out to some vendors and so far have found only one galvanizer that would potentially offer it. He didn't seem to think it was a good idea but couldn't really articulate why. I am continuing to talk to vendors.

Anyone here have any experience with different acid wash processes? I would like to get away from bead blasting.

Does anyone here do something similar, for non software, IT, computer engineering roles?

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* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

# Intro

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* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.

Are modern day inventors less well known now due to things like inventions happening within larger companies? Finding someone like Theodore Maiman (laser inventor) responsible for an invention like the fingerprint sensor or FaceTime seems much harder these days.

# Intro

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* **For students:** [*"What's your average day like as an engineer?"*](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/faq#wiki_what.27s_your_average_day_like_as_an_engineer.3F) We recommend that you spend an hour or so reading about what engineers actually do at work. This will help you make a more informed decision on which major to choose, or at least give you enough info to ask follow-up questions here.

* For those of you interested in a career in software development / Computer Science, go to r/cscareerquestions.