Delmar
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I want to know who made these wiring terminations.
Don’t trust auto parts store battery cables
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DEI isn't a mistake, just jumbled letters for DIE.
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Ok I'll be good now
Once a process has been validated, mass production is simply repeating that process over and over, with sampling done to make sure things are still within spec.
Diversity causes the defects??? Maybe break up the insiders management club with some diversity would be a good thing.
Or maybe just pay more to the line workers that get 3% raise and the CEO 40% raise. Or at least have more line workers with time to actually do a good job.
Daddy Tanuki
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touch a irritated part of your pysch did we? the only thing that works, and is guaranteed to work is 100% meritocracy. anything else is a disaster waiting to happen. in the US this was the norm until about 20 years ago. then we slid done the well of bullshit marxism promoted as love peace and acceptance.
No, but diversity for the sake of diversity and not merit is asking for trouble.
Only if they earn it. I don't care what someone looks like as long as they are excellent at their job. Do DEI bullcrap and pass over someone more qualified simply because they are the "wrong" skin color or sexual orientation is beyond stupid.
Can't argue the CEO may get too much, though at the end of the day the CEO not the line worker is the guy who gets blamed for most everything legally that goes wrong. I never want to be a CEO of anything because I don't want to be liable for someone else's crap. Lots of responsibility taken at that top tier.
Holy carp I'm triggered and going off the plantation again. Sorry to the OP for the off topic. I need to behave.
seneysolar
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We use Mil spec wire (M22759/16) paired with mil spec terminals AMP/TE/Solistrand. Crimped with a calibrated crimper (yes its gets sent out and checked by a 3rd party), them measure with a "go" / "no go" gauge or caliper.
In aviation, in order to keep product certification, you must use the crimp tool called out by the terminal manufacturer that certified it. In other words, the entire process is certified, not just the part.
Daddy Tanuki
Solar Wizard
yep I have an older set of milspec cable crimpers that were excess at NAS Atsugi and tossed, nothing wrong, just the oldest set and the government had money to spend. I do not have the milspec crimps, but its adjustable and it crimps fine and dandy.
Daddy Tanuki
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i thought about typing all of that out but realized that while facts do not care about someones feelings, convincing them of the inaccuracy of their statements is generally futile.
said it many times, I did not care who I shared a fighting position with, did not care if they were black, white or striped like a frigging zebra, they could choke on cock as much as they wanted on their time, as long as when the time came, they did not fall asleep on their watch, and they could lay down suppressing fire with accuracy. IE do not fuck up and leave me hanging.
The rest is all feelz from the left and the right. I don't care about your feelz.... I care about living to see the next day.
Brucey
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Hey they've moved their incompetence into manned space flight ..
Daddy Tanuki
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I wonder if the words titanic, submersible, and the phrase from Stockton Rush rings any bells...."he wanted a 'younger' and 'inspirational' team of 20-somethings for his Titanic submersible." Translation: "I ain't hiring no wrinkly old white guys"
I do believe diversity and meritocracy can coexist. In that pure meritocracy would generally require more diversity at many places of employment.
All too easy to favor people that act and look similar to ourselves to give preference over the best qualified. You may believe this does not happen and that is OK.
Boron
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Hey Bubba - you gotta realize man that old guys with real experience are dying out. They dont train young thrusters like we did when I started out. Its all quick fix, tree topping approach fleshed out with buzz words and management targets. I am a real cast iron engineer/designer from petrochem control systems. You cant get flashy chancers to last a week in a design office. I try to tell them designing is a personal commitment to integrity - do it right first time. Make a careless mistake and it shut the plant down cost $1M/day damages/startup costs.
You see being an IT guy you dont need any formal college training or even knowledge of ohms law. These are the shouty guys get to management cos they make plausible noises. A designer commits to paper which is then passed to a outside fabricator , product delivered to site, installed by tradesman, set up by a techie and spoils a customers day when it doesnt work.
Daddy Tanuki
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I am waiting.
robbob2112
Doing more research, mosty harmless
The problem is when diversity is mandated by quotas and hard numbers for political reasons. Meritocracy that is color/sex/orentation blind and just hire the best candidate and don't care about any of those things.
When you pass over the best person for the job to make a quota it is an injustice to everyone involved.
IMO the real problems with Boeing began when they stopped having the engineering and safety first - instead it is all about the stock price and the bottom dollar. One of the bits that came out with the twin 737 crashes was the lack of a second pitostatic tube - they made it optional and the customers selected it because it saved a hundred grand with not having the tube, the wiring, sensor, etc. To bad the second input was needed because of the choice of engine on the plane made it needed to have a system to compensate for the off-center mass and it affected the weight and balance.
My armchair answer is they should have maybe moved the wings a bit or lifted the landing gear so the engines were off the ground more or changed the design so the plane was actually balanced verse compensating for being off-balance all the time. But that would have required full testing for the whole airframe and full simulator training for all pilots to fly it verse the abreviated training to qualify for the new model.
And it all comes down to running the company soley to make money instead of putting out a safe and quality product AND making a little less money.
In my company they had a CEO change and there was going to be a complete culture change - they put everyone through a 8 week training course to learn about how things were going to be run.... and then come the end of the year - they give the CEO a raise, start lay-offs again for the front line folks, hire a bunch of new VPs and loose all credibility with the non-managment folks. Just more of the same under a different name. It was so promising until the CEO started bowing to the political reality in the company. Of course she brought in a bunch of folks she used to work with and a bunch of the old school that have been there for the last 25 years are "moving on to new opportunities"
I hate when people piss on my head and tell me it is rain. Tell me it sux, tell me they are gonna have to fire 5 people that make things work in order to give the new worthless VP an extra bit of pay because he is your buddy, or some board member's son.
How about run the company the best it can be run with the best people and as a side effect you make money. Not try to cut staff to make imaginary numbers that make the price of the stock go up $0.02 and you get a new porche.
So it looks like Meritocracy was actually not in place here. More like Cronyism.
Easy for management to get these confused.
curiouscarbon
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windynation and selterm have seemed to be doing good stuff for cables. any suggestions for good adhesive lined shrink wrap, like high ratio 4:1? for insulation, silicone is rated for higher temperatures without melting, yet seems weaker to physical puncture, maybe less to abrasion. knowledge is power 
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️SolarFlares
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Its not happening
Its not happening but even if it was its not a big deal
It might be happening but not enough to worry about
Its happening and here's why its a good thing <----- we are here
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It's not 4:1 but it's heavy duty, I was very happy with it on my last 2 builds.windynation and selterm have seemed to be doing good stuff for cables. any suggestions for good adhesive lined shrink wrap, like high ratio 4:1? for insulation, silicone is rated for higher temperatures without melting, yet seems weaker to physical puncture, maybe less to abrasion. knowledge is power
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Daddy Tanuki
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this is your opinion... thank god people with asinine ideas like this are ridiculed here in Asia. Only thing that matters here is who is the best for the job. you either create prosperity for the entity you work for or you eventually get shit canned.
curiouscarbon
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thanks for the recommendationIt's not 4:1 but it's heavy duty, I was very happy with it on my last 2 builds.
I ordered some from Windy Nation with my cable order for the next expansion, it doesn't seem as robust as the stuff from Greg's, I'm sure it will be fine.Adhesive Heat Shrink Archives - gregsmarinewiresupply.com
Dual-Wall Adhesive Heat Shrink protects against the most challenging of environments, making the best moisture protection available. It has several advantages over conventional unsealed products.
SolarFlares
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I agree with you. Just pointing out the common tactic that everyone was denying these types of hiring and entertainment quotas weren't actually happening for years and years. Now they have pivoted to saying its a good thing.
Daddy Tanuki
Solar Wizard
gotcha.... I misread your post then. I watched it happen over 40 years working in and around the government... time in the military, then time as a civilian. i have watched it slowly circle the drain. it used to be you worked hard and got promoted... then came quotas based on race and gender.. and it went downhill even faster and faster.
Boron
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Well guys I worked in Tx for a while on an immigrant special skills quota visa years ago - easy route to green card yada yada. Then I discovered what it really meant with uncle sam having taxable rights to your world wide assets from birth etc and how ruinous it was if you werent in a big corp benefits package and how you need $5mill public liability insurance (locked in with your property) WOW they got claws into you from all angles. Loved living there, but hire and fire mindset way too dodgy - give your best years then get sh8t canned. But the issue here is diversity, so even 20 years ago it was quietly in practice. Young women being placed as "Project Engineers" - you know what a responsible job that is requiring 20years real eng experience. A colleague warned me in a whisper - keep away for female co-workers, never get isolated with one in a room etc. The slightest hissy fit can turn to allegations and management were so scared of litigation you were immediately sacrificed by some lame excuse. So 5ft distance, functional politeness but never any familiarity. One young Brit guy started dating (in a platonic way) a fat office girl and it got kinda needy and heavy with his weekends mapped out etc. He quietly requested a xfer and disappeared without a word. But I have a soft spot for TX yeehaa - I was shocked at the unprincipled way business was done - after sales customer care was mostly hot air once they got your dollar.
I use the same one. Work better than the hammer one.
Boron
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These are the Cheap Charlie ones - I got. I gives you the force but the dies are rubbish and the essence is that precision dies match quality lugs. If the tolerances are out you dont get a proper crimp. These are known for leaking pistons as well. I had to faff around with brass packing shim strips in the die. Use the full sized die first, doesnt really grip so take up the slack with strips of packing. I thought of grinding down the faces so the die jaws close tighter. I dont do enough big crimps to justify £70 for an industrial model. I end up soldering anyway as I dont trust the mechanical joint. There's serious science behind the industrial version (to Mil spec). IIRR you do a double clamp so you indent twice. The pro's will know how its done
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