Posted on 05/16/2016 10:16:46 AM PDT by C19fan
I am NOT going to a website named http://www.fag.com.
JUST NOT DOING IT.
I had a bearing go out on the front wheel of my Ford Escape about three years ago; the thing screamed like mad. In all my years of driving and all the cars I’ve owned, that had not happened before.
My son’s Toyota just had the same problem.
It makes me wonder where the bearings were manufactured.
But bloggers like those fags.com are the new media and you
must embrace them and then later exchange fluids new media.
yes
This is part of the issue that America will face going forward. To re-industrialize, we will need to re-create the entire manufacturing ecosystem.
Used to be that one could drop by any reasonably stocked hardware store and get some brushes to rebuild that noisy electric motor.
Can’t happen today.
Don’t even ask someone under thirty what are brushes doing in a motor. You’ll just get zombie eyes.
Buckminster Fuller used the example of a typical
desk globe. He said that if you took the distance
between the deepest ocean trench and the top of
Mt. Everest it would only equal the thickness of
the ink.
Smooth...
Its a fake. Read the comments on the youtube source.
The giveaway is that there is too much difference.
That’s an interesting analogy.
Wonder which applications call for such precision?
I’ve noticed the cleanliness problem in many Chinese resturants. At the same time that it looked like they rarely cleaned the place, the BROILER looked new in every kitchen I saw. I’ve worked with those broilers and it takes an immense effort to keep them looking new day in and day out. Made no sense to me.
Maybe the Chinese mean theirs are for slingshots.
I have read - should be easy to look up - that Churchill's #1 priority bombing targets were the German bearing factories. If it doesn't roll, it won't roll... Of course, Schweinfurt was a difficult to get at target, for the same reason.
Gas turbine engines with a 100 hour operational life in a military application???
Calling bearings “the humblest of fruits” is an admission of ignorance. (For the record, I represent a number of patents for the Timken Company of Ohio in Europe, and the effort that goes into making quality bearings would astound you - or the author of that article, at least.)
BTW, that site runs dozens of scripts, which NoScript thankfully blocks for me, so I cannot view the video. Any direct link to the video? Thanks.
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And further down the road we saw billboards advertising in 8 foot letters `THE BALDKNOBBERS’.
We found out it was a Branson, MO act of some kind, but after the Fag sign, I wondered what we were getting into.
Actually had some good, clean fun. And learned `Ozarks’ was named by the French: Arcs, for the quality of the wood for bows.
Ever go to the Walnut bowl factory in Lebanon? Yeah, touristy, but that’s what I was, even if my wife is from Joplin.
I’m sure the Chinese military is full of this sort of high quality equipment.
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They might have ruined their original broilers with unwashed grease, grease and yet more grease. The answer MIGHT be that simple.
What do Chinese broil, by the way? I can't think of a single dish that is broiled. Soaked in grease, yes, broiled, no.
The photo of the bearings reminds me of my high school days, working at Kansas City’s “East Side Auto Parts” (unfortunately, long out of business,) in the machine shop, packing drum and rotor bearings with Valvoline bearing grease - my lord, that stuff STUNK!
Mark
Your story reminds me of Radio Shack.
When I was young (back in the 60s & 70s,) the guys at Radio Shack were electronic experts. I remember having one guy look over a schematic I was working with and helping me understand how the circuit worked, and explaining why the parts list I had was wrong. They could test and recommend replacement tubes. And if they didn’t have something, they could order it for you. Back then, their motto was well deserved, “You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.”
In the 1990s, I remember needing a wire-wrap tool, and even back then, they carried them, something that was quite handy while working with system boards and hard drive controllers (if you were out of jumpers.)
Today, if you can even find a Radio Shack, they don’t even have electronic components in their catalog. I believe they’ve changed their motto to, “You’ve got questions, we’ve got blank stares.”
Mark
Right, or maybe they’re packed with thicker grease or something.
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