From: none@none.com99   
      
   On 6/27/2025 10:30 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:103mgdl$87c2$2@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   > Lots of modestly experienced and self taught manual machinists in the   
   > maker crowd use layout as a sanity check.   
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   > That makes sense if they are primarily a designer rather than a   
   > machinist. I was formally an electronic technician and laboratory   
   > manager, with circuit design, CAD/CAM, programming and machining on the   
   > side. I've done more machining on home projects than for work.   
   >   
   > If the function of a part is obvious to me I'll draw it with dimensions   
   > and follow them, when it has multiple interactions to coordinate I may   
   > alternately redesign and machine what I'm sure of. I have several   
   > preliminary versions of the satellite laser link hardware that   
   > separately addressed its mechanical, electrical or optical requirements.   
   > Since I didn't have a relevant engineering degree I was much more   
   > convincing when I showed them a neatly machined sample of what I   
   > intended than when I described or sketched it. The project manager   
   > brought me in as an electronic tech and then gave me a free hand when he   
   > found I could also create hardware to his specs. One engineer said my   
   > black-painted optical work looked like the parts of a Norden bombsight.   
   >   
      
      
   Even further off topic.  Growing up there was a crashed airplane across   
   the street from the our grocery store out in the desert.  Not to far   
   away at all.  Than black box (if it had one) instrument panel, engine/s,   
   and landing gear had been removed.  Probably also guns and a few other   
   things.  There was a lot of exploded 50 caliber rounds a few small   
   strips of ammo links, one or two unexploded 50 cal rounds that survived,   
   and a lot of other cool junk.  Among the things I pulled from the   
   wreckage where a couple metal boxes with two levers on them marked as   
   bomb arming controls.  I never knew what airplane it was, but we always   
   assumed it was WWII vintage because there was a huge military training   
   base out there during WWII.   
      
      
      
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