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To: Waverunner

“That’s why designers, engineers and architects put tolerances on drawings/models.”

Those are manufacturing tolerances.

There are no tolerances in the above, only probabilities of a given outcome.


12 posted on 01/04/2022 12:43:13 PM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: TexasGator

True about the probabilities... physical tolerances are defined so the product will assemble and function properly.
One of the most interesting manufacturing challenges I had was to grind a hemispherical shell of ceramic to the tightest tolerance I could. That included concentric position of the inner and outer hemisphere. Our CMM was a Zeiss with about a 3 micron accuracy and it showed everything spot on. The customer bought 4 of the grinders and had us build 2 frames so they could convert them to CMM’s. Fun project. the hemispheres were about 20” or 500mm across.


67 posted on 01/05/2022 8:02:14 AM PST by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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