[Racer X 69]

Whilst getting loaded into the flying sardine can.

I look at this photo and see the stuff airplanes are made from.

Aluminum skin and structure, titanium bolts, aluminum collars (nuts), aluminum rivets.

[KC0PET]

I look at this photo and see the stuff airplanes are made from.

Aluminum skin and structure, titanium bolts, aluminum collars (nuts), aluminum rivets.

Sounds like an occupational hazard

[edom31]

Electro-35 with Arista.edu 100ISO

[CharLac]

Long train along the shores of Lake Superior

[paulh]

1938 Ford at the Coppell, TX car show in September...




Judge at work:

[Racer X 69]

1938 Ford at the Coppell, TX car show in September...




Judge at work:

What’s on top of the pole we can’t see Paul?

[paulh]

What’s on top of the pole we can’t see Paul?

Can't remember exactly - I think it was a small flag of some kind...?

[KC0PET]

Pedestrians, cars and a train.



---------- Post added 12-17-18 at 09:13 PM ----------

A noisy grab shot. Looks like one of the planes the Civil Air Patrol uses.

[Arn]

A lot of serendipity about a shot like this.

Great that you also got the shadow!

Here's a boat - probably the ugliest one on the west coast!

[KC0PET]

Cars and trucks on the "expressway".

[edom31]

Filling up on the sidewalk

[YeOldePentaxian]

probably the ugliest one on the west coast!

Not sure about that Arn, I think I saw some uglier dock monsters when I lived in Gibsons.

Would hate to sail that one.

[Des]

Great that you also got the shadow!

Yep, that was definitely part of the serendipity. Flying north, with the morning sun to the right, and being on the left side of the aircraft.

Here's a boat - probably the ugliest one on the west coast!

Well, let's say it's got a lot of character. ;-) Nice shot Arn.

Filling up on the sidewalk

What's the deal there Ed? Is it an electric charging station? Public access or private? (Electric vehicles have very little take-up in Australia so far, due to the high initial cost, lack of infrastructure and range-anxiety.)

[Racer X 69]

Whilst getting loaded into the flying sardine can.

I look at this photo and see the stuff airplanes are made from.

Aluminum skin and structure, titanium bolts, aluminum collars (nuts), aluminum rivets.

Sounds like an occupational hazard

Notice on the door opening frame. Two orange things.

Those are called collars. People might call them nuts, but for airplanes they are called collars. The nut part breaks off on installation, once the designed torque limit is reached.

So those collars are threaded onto a couple of Highlok bolts. Awesome bits of engineering, titanium, and coated to prevent corrosion. After the Highlok and the collar are assembled, the drawing finish must be restored.

Also, notice the amount of thread sticking out of the collars. There is too much sticking out, it is called pin protrusion. It is also noticeably different between the two, but that is another matter. The grip length of the stack up (all the metal bits of aircraft structure getting fastened there) has not been considered by the mechanic who performed the repairs or non conformance work.

Because the bolts are too long, the collar cannot properly expert the correct clamping force and usually breaks off before it has been achieved.


On that airplane some work has been done, and it would not pass my inspection before submitting the work for final inspection, and it clearly would not pass inspection from any of the QA techs that look over the work we do where I work.


But hey, they design the things with a 10 to 1 failure factor (for every 10 rivets and/or bolts, only 1 s required).

[goatsNdonkey]

This little truck pulled onto the shoulder, across the highway from the filling station where we stopped, just south of Chandlerville, Illinois, on the Illinois River floodplain. Driver left it idling and trotted across to visit the station. That's a big fold-up disk harrow hooked on behind, but I was too close to show the whole rig.



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