oceanblue2019
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Yeah...the tooling pays for itself in literally a few simple projects vs. paying a professional fabricator to do it....and it opens up a whole new world of possibilities. I frankly am not sure how I survived without a welder and plasma cutter prior to owning them, lol.
Sooooo true about getting the job done the way you want it.
I buy donuts for the parts guys at the dealerships I use....specifically for that purpose. They usually give me wholesale for stuff that I'd normally have to pay retail on for that reason.
Yep...we've got those folks at my work too. Most of them are incredibly intelligent, but they are more number crunchers or "nerds" (as we call them to their faces and they love it, lol) that do computational flow dynamics all day, but don't know how to take apart their dash to change a bad ignition switch (which me and another test engineer did a few weeks back for one of our dearly loved nerds).
You sound like the kind of engineer I like working with....I call the other ones "theoretical engineers"....they are great on solidworks/catia/pro-e etc. but don't want to get their hands dirty. You sound like you started as much more of a "hands on" engineer (as I call them)....who generally are a lot more well rounded, and easier to work with especially when the real world and the design world of the computer don't mesh as they thought they would.
In any case, yeah....aerospace, especially manned space is a niche. Most likely our paths cross somewhere along the line...but we're a tiny company that holds a few key patents on the propulsion side and even in our thrust vector actuators line, we only have 1 other competitor. Very small world.
JK only for now it seems?Correct, I meant front 44 and rear 60. $10K ish. Depends on options of course, but I wasn't talking stacked with everything known to man.
https://www.northridge4x4.com/part/...-performance-prorock-44-60-axle-set-assembled
I don't see how numbers are off (see link above). Sure, not perfect axles...but compared to factory I can't imagine they aren't improved.
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