Janszoon

You're a brave man. Nice to see you around again!

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Bulldog

You too, man Good to see the place is still here and stuff.

And yeah, we'll see how I do eh. Couldn't get past the first few pages last time I tried, but I'm gonna read that cover-to-cover in a month this time, whatever happens

rostasi

Good to see you again Bulldog.
One of the guys from our Finnegans Wake reading group
is starting a Gravity's Rainbow group next month.
I may find the time.

Bulldog

Ah, Finnegan's Wake, there's another one I'm gonna read this year.

I remember years ago we tried to start a book club on here. I think it was Sleepyjack who did it. Never really took off though. It's a shame, as it was a good idea and all.

Lisnaholic

@ Janszoon: An audiobook sounds like a great option for a long commute though I've never tried it myself. Given the option - which of course a driver is not- I agree with MicShazam:-@ mindfulness: I never guessed that Dimensioning and Tolerancing was a big enough topic to have a book about it. Do you ever feel that engineering is suffering from Too Much Information these days?

@ rostasi & Bulldog: good luck with those demanding reads!
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I'm really enjoying this book which has a good balance of literature and history - and when those topics get a bit dry, I'm planning to check out the index for:

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Mindfulness

I didn't know there would be a big ole book on it also. Im excited to learn all about blueprints and whatever they are teaching in that class though. it has a bunch of pages where its just questions too. that last manufacturing book was wrote at around a high school level, with pictures or graphs and explaining stuff. this book doesnt have any photos it does take a while to learn all of GD&T , i heard years on the job doing it until you learn everything.

thats cool you're reading a book, i love books that have history in them

i want to read that new David Goggins book called "Cant Hurt Me" dude is pretty much super human.

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grindy

GD&T is hard as **** and doing the tolerances in a smart way is quite the art.

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Mindfulness

i have a whole class on it next semester, hoping its not too hard

im real nice with dial calipers and converting them to decimal numbers now. didnt get much practice reading micrometers and converting them to decimal though :/

a few of the companies i want to eventually switch to want the new employees in CNC or Quality Audit to know all the GD&T stuff.

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grindy

Weird.
I work in quality and sure, it's good to be able to read a drawing, but in-depth knowledge of GD&T seems really unnecessary.
On the other hand, if you're not actually designing something yourself, all this stuff isn't that hard.

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Mindfulness

i worked in quality control at electrolux in st.cloud and we never mentioned GD&T at all. i was just a hourly paid employee in the union there. here in connecticut though, im applying to one company that builds submarines, and another company that builds airplane engines. they come in trying to recruit students and i wouldnt mind working there so i might end up going there. they probably only mainly want the CNC folks to know the GD&T i think though.

thats cool you work in Quality, is it laid back? i heard its nice and chill.

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