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Ken S. Tucker

Jan 1, 1970
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I had two of them ('85 and '90). Both sucked. Neither made it to 100Kmi.

We're at 120Kmi on a 2005 job, so far so good.
We pulled all passenger seating so wife uses it as a delivery vehicle.
Ken
 
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Ken S. Tucker

Jan 1, 1970
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Martin said:
Penniless racist trailer trash like Tucker couldn't afford it.

Who are you calling scruffy???
I thought these days that they had largely solved that problem. US cars
are just too heavy, with sloppy suspension, gross understeer and slow to
be interesting.
That is until you put >6L engines in them.

Why buy a racing car?
Ken
 
We're at 120Kmi on a 2005 job, so far so good.
We pulled all passenger seating so wife uses it as a delivery vehicle.

The engines were crap but the real problem was the suspension and (uni)body.
Chrysler transmissions suck, too, but at least my Voyagers were manuals. The
'85 went through head gaskets every 30Kmi, like clockwork and the '90 just
fell apart. The final blow was the rear shock towers rotting out.

Junk.
 
My next computer desk will have a 'computer floor' on top of the desk
to hide & route all of the cables. The top will lift off in various
sized pieces to access the wiring area. Hollow posts on each side to
hold a printer shelf above the mointors, and hide the wires.

There isn't a lot of need for holes in the middle of the desk. A wiring
channel across the back is plenty. Most computer desks, these days, have some
means of getting cables off the work surface. Having the top removable is
overkill and would interfere with the other purposes of the desktop.
 
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Ken S. Tucker

Jan 1, 1970
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Bill said:
Phased-array ultrasound scanners, electron micrscopes. electron beam
microfabricators, stroboscopic electron beam testers, The Affinity
Sensors "resonant mirror" protein-sensing system ... it's a long list.

Developing complex systems involves a lot of trouble-shooting, as you'd
know if you'd ever done it. At Cambridge Instruments I occasionally also
got dragged in to help with knotty problems on other projects, or stuff
that had come up in production.

So you have never been trained in trouble-shooting, just did by-gosh, by
golly. That's a BIG hole in your education, couldn't make technician.
Ken
 
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josephkk

Jan 1, 1970
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I thought these days that they had largely solved that problem. US cars
are just too heavy, with sloppy suspension, gross understeer and slow to
be interesting. That is until you put >6L engines in them.

Just did a search looking for over 300 hp cars, check out the Buick
Lacross and some Cadillacs; biggest engine 3.6 L V6 and over 300 hp on a
3.0 L V6. Your turn.

?-)
 
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gregz

Jan 1, 1970
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josephkk said:
Just did a search looking for over 300 hp cars, check out the Buick
Lacross and some Cadillacs; biggest engine 3.6 L V6 and over 300 hp on a
3.0 L V6. Your turn.

?-)

Some American cars have optional touring packages, rear anti sway bar,
etc., police cars.
My 77 datsun had soft suspension. Had to install heavy duty anti sway bars
and stiffer shocks. High speed tires also make a lot of difference with
stiffer sidewalls.
Car was also slow to today's standard, unless you boosted it. Then I've
seen 11 second quarter miles.

Greg
 
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Ken S. Tucker

Jan 1, 1970
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josephkk said:
Just did a search looking for over 300 hp cars, check out the Buick
Lacross and some Cadillacs; biggest engine 3.6 L V6 and over 300 hp on a
3.0 L V6. Your turn.

Marty Brown is a blow-hard, his big problem is his wheel chair
battery charge, making it to 7-11 for a gourmet hot dog and back.
Ken
 
So, you know nothing of the design, yet you know it can't work. No
surprise. Your comprehension sucks, as usual. I said, 'VARIOUS SIZED
PIECES' which you seem to think the entire surface will be in tiny
pieces. It means that the areas that need wires run will lift out as
needed. Extra pieces will have the cutouts so you can arrange the back
half in any way you desire. You know, the computers, monitors & all the
loose items with wires. That will leave about 2/3 of the top as one
solid piece for a keyboard, mouse or other work area.

Unless the "various sized pieces" is one, larger than 60" x 30", it's a bad
design. I certainly don't want joints in the middle of my writing surface.
Some people have no vision, even if they were given detailed plans.

Which you obviously didn't provide.
 
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SMS

Jan 1, 1970
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So -- buy a camera with a decent name behind it, that's not the cheapest
one out there for its features, and cross your fingers.

In June I was in China. A woman had a Canon EOS 40D SLR, working fine,
then all of a sudden the dreaded "99" error code (a catch all code when
the internal diagnostics don't know the problem). Nothing she could do
to fix it (battery change, battery removed for a few minutes, including
the date/time coin cell, lens remove and replace, etc.). She was
British, teaching in Brunei. Last I heard the camera was still in
Malaysia at a Canon repair depot.
 
Not when the desk has to sit against a wall. You can do everything
from the top, without dragging hundreds of pounds of desk & other
equipment out to make changes.

Nonsense. The trough is accessible from the top. Other designs it's
accessible from the bottom, with cutouts to drop the cables through. No need
to have rear access at all, indeed many are "built in" (modular office
equipment).
 
You didn't ask, you just attacked. Actually, it will be over 60"
wide. That's one reason I need a new desk. Things are hanging off all
edges of this 36"*60" inch desk.

Attacked? I know you're in pain, Michael, but you need to get your head out
of your ass.
Why should I? You aren't going to build one.

See above.
 
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Jamie

Jan 1, 1970
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Ken said:
So you have never been trained in trouble-shooting, just did by-gosh, by
golly. That's a BIG hole in your education, couldn't make technician.
Ken
I didn't know there was training for trouble shooting? I thought it
was training to learn how things worked and the trouble shooting should
follow naturally? If that fails, then you're in the wrong business.
Pulling a whole section of electrons just because some major test point
that means nothing to you, failed the test procedure is a very costly
way of doing business.

But, if there is such a thing, then the detection of blue smoke
escaping its nest must be one of the items that a training course would
teach you as an indication that sum-ting is wong! Something that maybe
you are more familiar with.

Jamie
 
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Ken S. Tucker

Jan 1, 1970
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Bill Sloman wrote:
....
In that area, I'm an autodidact,

amongst other things...
like pretty much everybody else I've
ever worked with. I'm not the best trouble-shooter I know - that was
Mike Penberth, who never lost track of which hypotheses were supported
by the evidence we had

http://www.justgiving.com/Mike-Penberth

but I was as good as or better than everybody else I worked with, and
popular with the technicians, who called on me in when they were
stuck.

Well everybody enjoys a good laugh.
As usual, your imagination is telling you stuff that isn't actually
true, and you are too dim to realise that this is going to be obvious.

*realize* keep looking for your light switch.
Ken
 
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Ken S. Tucker

Jan 1, 1970
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Jamie said:
I didn't know there was training for trouble shooting? I thought it was
training to learn how things worked and the trouble shooting should
follow naturally?

After learning how it's 'supposed' to work, next is learning
how to learn why is doesn't.
If that fails, then you're in the wrong business.
Pulling a whole section of electrons just because some major test point
that means nothing to you, failed the test procedure is a very costly
way of doing business.

Test points don't help much with intermittent faults, usually
they're for tuning, but can be helpful.
But, if there is such a thing, then the detection of blue smoke
escaping its nest must be one of the items that a training course would
teach you as an indication that sum-ting is wong! Something that maybe
you are more familiar with.

Yeah, simply sensing components for some excess heat is one trick.

Regards
Ken
 
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