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MEP EP#319: Work to Automate the WorkFeedspot has ranked this podcast #1 for Best 10 Electrical Engineering Podcasts. Thank you everyone for listening and sharing this podcast with others. We are just getting started!
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Testing Ratchet Wrenches
Wrench qualifications
Ratcheting Wrench
Non-Reversible
Zero-degree offset
½” hex
12 or 6 point
Have collected 20 ratchet wrenches so far
Why? Broke one and wanted to try out all the different styles and brands before buying a set
What are we testing?
Thickness of the wrench
How does it feel?
Max torque to either failure or cam out
Any other tests?
Thickness to torque rating
How much mechanism play
Measure ratchet dimension
How?
Quick tests show I need more than 100ftlbs but less than 250ftlbs of bolt torque
Load cells to measure the clamping force between 2 plates
Need a “screw” drive to handle the force
A normal ½” bolt is usually 5/16-18” which handles ~30ftlbs before pulling the threads
Two Paths
Take a ¾” bolt and machine the head into a hex
Take a ½” allen socket with a ¾” square drive and attach that to a bolt
Automate the Boring Stuff
Spending 20 hours to save 1 - the engineers life
Making API calls with the requests library
Requests: HTTP for Humans
Openpyxl for creating excel
Commenting code
Automate the Boring Stuff
Show Notes
MEP EP#319: Work to Automate the Work
Feedspot has ranked this podcast #1 for Best 10 Electrical Engineering Podcasts. Thank you everyone for listening and sharing this podcast with others. We are just getting started!
MacroFab Updates
- KiCad 6 support!
- PI DAY Contest
- March 14th (3/14)
- Stop by the MacroFab website to take a pop quiz for a chance to win some free pizza
Testing Ratchet Wrenches
- Wrench qualifications
- Ratcheting Wrench
- Non-Reversible
- Zero-degree offset
- ½” hex
- 12 or 6 point
- Have collected 20 ratchet wrenches so far
- Why? Broke one and wanted to try out all the different styles and brands before buying a set
- What are we testing?
- Thickness of the wrench
- How does it feel?
- Max torque to either failure or cam out
- Any other tests?
- Thickness to torque rating
- How much mechanism play
- Measure ratchet dimension
- How?
- Quick tests show I need more than 100ftlbs but less than 250ftlbs of bolt torque
- Load cells to measure the clamping force between 2 plates
- Need a “screw” drive to handle the force
- A normal ½” bolt is usually 5/16-18” which handles ~30ftlbs before pulling the threads
- Two Paths
- Take a ¾” bolt and machine the head into a hex
- Take a ½” allen socket with a ¾” square drive and attach that to a bolt
Automate the Boring Stuff
- Spending 20 hours to save 1 - the engineers life
- Making API calls with the requests library
- Requests: HTTP for Humans
- Openpyxl for creating excel
- Commenting code
- Automate the Boring Stuff
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