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Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Calgary Area Meetup is set for Saturday July 12th at 10am. The signup thread is here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!
Youtube- The curious origins of (the words for) imperial and metric units
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I'll have to see if I can find it. I love good books. Anyone who knows enough about a subject to write a book about it, is probably worth reading.
Would there be any truth that Canadian engineers would struggle with overpasses? We really don't do over passes up here, not like the USA does. It's one of those things "I heard" we had to import an engineer on a project.
I'm not saying our engineers aren't great, although the new Nipigon bridge did fall apart because the bolts broke 😀
I'm not saying our engineers aren't great, although the new Nipigon bridge did fall apart because the bolts broke 😀
Who would want an over pass when we could have some traffic circles instead ?
Right. Who wants a steady flow of traffic at a fast pace that efficiently moves vehicles, let's do more traffic circles with pedestrian crossings and vague yield signs
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I am always surprised that people seem to dispense with the “imperial system” and say Canada is all metric. If so?!, why can’t I get metric drill bits / like anywhere??? My boys work in the gas fitting business and it is all 3” or 4” or other “inch” dimensions….. no metric going on at all!
I showed you an easy go-around to stay off of the Burlington Skyway. I can give you more options to bypass large bridges in my neighbourhood during our next GTHA & Niagara field trip. Keep in mind that one of my careers was building bridges - so I have faith in my fellow engineers- dispute the screw up with the anchors at the Nipigon bridge. That was a cluster f*ck between design/specifications/contractor/inspection. I think it is a fair statement to say that i have installed or supervised the installation of more rock anchors than 99% of other Ontario engineers
PS1 - There are also easy ways to stay off of the Garden City Bridge. Next trip to Niagara i will show you a couple of options.
PS2 - yes, I can run a jackleg.
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For the benefit of others reading this, tall guys often don't like heights. It's along ways down and we get hurt when we fall. I don't like heights. I hate that Niagara skyway. Waaaay too high for me. That's why CWret showed me some options. I was, and still am, most grateful!
For the record, I'll NEVER drive over the bridge between Austria and Italy at the Gros Glockner ever again. That Fkn bridge (over a mountain) gave me a voice change for 2 months. My wife called me a pussy. I don't know how I survived it....... Who the Fk builds a bridge over a mountain!
Well should you find yourself in this predicament again for G's sake don't stop or you'll see just how much they bounce and shake. A squeaky voice will be your least embarrassing reaction. 😛
It is not the harmonics that bother me. It's the raw height. I don't like being more than 8 ft above ground. In fact, sometimes I think I prefer 6 under to 8 over.
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Don
Once death from the fall is eminent, the hight bothers me less, it's the crippling pain filled, survivable, bloody heap on the ground hight that I really dislike .......