A lesson on tolerances...
A lesson on tolerances...
(OP)
Preface: not quite a structural topic but a construction one so it seems like it fits here...
http://s eattletime s.nwsource .com/html/ localnews/ 2009599889 _portmista ke05m.html
As a side note, somebody on another forum points out that 2.52" is 64.008mm which means someone quite possibly converted from metric and dropped a bit of precision...
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As a side note, somebody on another forum points out that 2.52" is 64.008mm which means someone quite possibly converted from metric and dropped a bit of precision...






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- If this was important the cable could have been procurred in less time.
- 2/100th of an inch =slightly more than 1/64th of an inch off. To mitigate the problem its hard to believe they couldn't have made use of the larger cable.
- Its a quasi government job ie results not as important as process
These, of course, are opinion, but this story has me slightly upset.
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Incompatible tolerances. Absurd.
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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It's a cable at the end of the day.
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BA
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Unless of course this is cast in place steel...
Anthony Deramo
American Bridge Company
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If the company said a 64 mm trench and I gave them a 63.5 mm trench, do they have an argument? (Perhaps 64 mm, min)
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Can't those problems usually be fixed with a big hammer? (Particularly in this case!)
-- MechEng2005
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This is what happened when engineers/scientists read the news.