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    Ceiling fan issue

    Since it occurs when the fan is turned by hand, I would discount electrical or speed control interference or resonance. Gotta be mechanical/bearing problem.
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    Vertical pipe support load

    1600 ft of vertical pipe (several hundred meters is not much information) yielding "only 5 tons" (now ANSI units ?). That dead load seems very, very low. What pipe material, wall thickness & schedule, and pipe diameter are you assuming?
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    SpaceX Starship missions

    Working through launch of Nbr's IX and X missile. /Superbowl numerals
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    North Korean Ship Fails/Capsizes at Launch in Front of Kim

    Yes, I read that report too. /color me very skeptical That "recovery" and rebuilding of a destroyer or cruiser-sized bow and ship's hull collapse is far, far faster than anything the US Navy salvage crews ever did in WWII, even later in the war when their drydocks and salvage teams had been...
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    North Korean Ship Fails/Capsizes at Launch in Front of Kim

    And, a very rare! - accurate and descriptive video, of the different launch methods. But notice the shipyard crews cutting the restraints and the toggles or chain links. One failure on one cable? The crew is murdered. Or learns an expensive lesson.
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    North Korean Ship Fails/Capsizes at Launch in Front of Kim

    This is a short video of a short (3-bogie) sideways launch success. The three frames released at the same time, all three frames slid downhill equally quickly, the load (the ship) was evenly balanced on the timbers above each frame, and it evenly floated (splashed) up off of the three roller...
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    North Korean Ship Fails/Capsizes at Launch in Front of Kim

    Insane reaction by their government. "We goofed up. Hide the failure!" What in all bloody Hades "good" do those hundreds of blue tarps do towards recovery of the ship, of allowing partial salvage of the internals or of cutting up and moving the remains to begin building a new hull? Wait...
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    North Korean Ship Fails/Capsizes at Launch in Front of Kim

    Stern launch ("Break the champagne bottle on the stem") creates the greatest stress on the hull girder as the stern begins to get bouyant, but the bow is only partially cradled by the forward half of the sliding ways. Launching is a tricky problem, aside from the "simple" weight and moment and...
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    House Review - Site Visit without report?

    Also very relevant: If you do no report now, YOU have no realistic way of effectively charging (later) for your time when the report is needed. (Lawsuit, claim, liability, taxes, assessment or rebate or tax changes or loan or total collapse or insurance claim - whatever.) "Oh wait, I can get...
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    Thailand/Myanmar Earthquake: VIDEO Dramatic collapse of a high rise in Bankok

    Penthouse - and its cover slab - had no sway bracing, no sideways resistance to anything but the falling rain. Not the cause, but probably symptomatic of the basic building design all around. Inside, the center was falling into itself as the upper fell as a complete "unit". Like the...
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    North Korean Ship Fails/Capsizes at Launch in Front of Kim

    Details from the available British Commercial Press are few, and what is published contradicts itself. " In a statement KCNA said: 'Due to immature command and operational negligence, the parallel movement of the bogies could not be guaranteed, resulting in the launching sled in the stern...
  12. racookpe1978

    Slotted Counterbore

    A section view will also explicitly define which side the cut out is facing. So, when (not if) the mistake is made by production, you can point at the section view and show it to your boss.
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    SpaceX Starship missions

    No. One Raptor engine (from an earlier test flight) was re-used in the booster that was recovered. The Upper Stage - the one that failed on the Jan 16 flight - was a revised design from a style used successfully before, but it (the upper stage) had not been flown as a unit before before. I...
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    SpaceX Starship missions

    That debris field (Sept 2018) from the upper stage Unplanned Rapid Disassembly (Outside Operational Planned Scenario) Event is strikingly similar to the Jan 16 upper stage debris field photographed from below. Cue FAA hysteria and increased delays.
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    NDT req for butt weld bottom plates where no annular plates small diameter API 650 tank .RT is required or Vacuum box testing is enough.

    What would you expect to learn from vacuum box testing? Only that no pin hole leaks exist through the weld? Dye pen test would tell you more actually. And then an RT. Why RT? Is the geometry unsuitable for UT? Oh, by the way. What material, what pressure, what fluid, what criteria...
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