engineeredAF

Chief engineer & gasket artisan. Running a family business. PTFE products made in USA.

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

@JasBilyeu @emm0sh All the best book recs come from x 👍 shoutout @OSHBuilt for “7 powers” and a couple others from a manufacturing book club

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

@_baldtires Bigass press? I’ll show you mine if your show me yours 👀

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

@cadbitch @connorkapoor I hate opening crates made with nails. Screws show me how much they care 👍

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

@connorkapoor Put them on a pallet, heavy duty poly wrap, a couple straps for good measure. Make sure you order a truck with a liftgate 👍

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

@SCH_Clay @c0nst doing content online, showing what you do and even how you do it is cool. helping others is cool. personal branding is cool. but i'd never willingly share revenue or rev/head or gross margin or anything like that on a business i still operate. unwise

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

@jonathan_sessa @c0nst no doubt you're killing the game and content is a big part of that. but sharing #'s eventually attracts the wrong kind of attention. Unless part of your reindustrialization goals is to get others to do the same, which is cool if that's a goal.

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

@electro_pppp the real ones are all A and probably have a core memory associated

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

@emm0sh my onshape professional trial expired this week. boohoo lol

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

@c0nst i get that VC's need to toot their horns from time to time to stay relevant. but regular joe schmo's in a good niche need to stfu and keep their heads down, there's no benefit to bragging online other than stroking their ego. tons of downside tho

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

@c0nst cuz i'm a filthy capitalist

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

@BowTiedNiners so i gather i'll be okay if i let claude do my load analysis and 1-line diagram so i can get power to my new shop?

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

you're right in that a lot of the results have hard numbers on them, which gives the facade of YES/NO or PASS/FAIL certainty. But the subjectivity, challenge and beauty of engineering is upstream of actually doing the work - deliberating on what to optimize for, defining the requirements, etc. which is typically a moving target with insufficient information and a stationary deadline.

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

@JasBilyeu i should have watched this before attempting to fix my wife's mixer :-/

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

@redbullfuturist @stefan_salaices i guess they haven't changed that rule yet. when i was a junior i kept telling the foreman that it was for a "senior design project" and that "i couldn't remember my professor's name" lmao. then i got kicked out :-/

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

@amypretzel fingerspan for scale

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

@BowTiedNiners @BowTiedCrocodil it's not a joke for everyone 🫣 @emm0sh lol

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

Last note: I wish these driverless cars would be a little more liberal with the horn or high beams. They have no personality on the road

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

If you wanna know which driverless car company is winning, just fuck with them every time they’re on the road. Here’s my take

[engineeredAF @EngineeredAf]

Cybercab refuses to go down without a fight. Very good response time, will stop quickly and even evaded into a turn lane and slowed tf down.