The surest way to make a great airplane not-so-great is to make everything "one size bigger" (including the pilot) I would like to see a better way to make terminals. I solder mine.
On Sun, Mar 13, 2022, 6:45 PM John Gotschall via KRnet <krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote: > > About wire. > > A great video about things going awry: > > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsqe3utT6rs > > I have seen so many things break or fail it's what I make a living from. > > Engineers, manufacturers, sales people and government regulators have all > done their best then when the damn thing is deployed and dead, they call me. > > So, since I am an officially an "experienced old guy" near retirement I > talk to other old guys like myself. We have similar experiences. We have > seen tragedy, loss of treasure and folly a plenty. > > I told my friend about my sharing the "one size larger" opinion here in kr > net, and my friend, the other old guy says " They (engineers) just don't > get it, if you want it to last it has to be beefier than code (minimum)." > then he raised his voice " It's the MINIMUM!". > > He went on to say "Code is there to keep idiots from going one size too > small from safe." he went on " It's there to stop people from hurting each > other. In other words code is like saying only a moron would go smaller: > Let's outlaw morons. There is nothing but reliability (at the cost of > pennies) to be gained by up sizing." > > I said " I can't count how many code sized burnt up wire terminals I have > cut out and replaced." > > He says "Right, they (code sized parts) are all on the edge of moron's > land." > > I told him " I have to admit that it is not usually the wire that fails, > it's transient electric functions and then wire terminals where things > break down." > > "yeah if the load functions it will be the termination(s) that fails" he > replied. > > ...…............. > > Just a couple of non engineers discussing the wiring in everything from > commercial, shipyard, aircraft, TV, radio, commercial welding and > everything else, we have been working on for 50 years.. > > Maybe I should describe how I terminate a wire on you tube. It's > definitely not the way any engineer I have known would do it. Mine never > fail. (Neither did Magnolia Hi-Fi's back in the day). Not done to "code", > a limit set for the uninformed. Mine definitely exceeds code performance > by a wide margin. Only my staff at Mag did it my way, but that's ok on > account zero failures in high volume commercial production over 5 years is > a good track record I am proud of. A bit extra labor, but worth it. > > > > cheers! > > jg > -- > KRnet mailing list > KRnet@list.krnet.org > https://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet >
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