Besides that the dimensioning was not compatible with other dimensioning on the drawing. You could have located the bracket a 1/2' in any direction and it would not have mattered. And all it was locating was bracket to hold the end of a large hydraulic cylinder. Eight doesn't locate any more accurately than two. Some designs were rediculously over designed, like the part that had 8 locating pins with a. They always wanted to overtolerance everything because they all wanted to 'protect their a**s', which often created problems in manufacturing. Just because you can draw something doesn't mean you can make it, and many of the smarter ones learned a lot thru humility. As a machinist and Machined Parts Inspector, I've helped a lot of engineers understand that things they designed were overdone, impractical, or downright unmakable. Well most of us learned from the school of hard knocks by getting ourselves dirty and grimy as well as reading everything we could find about what we do. You seem to believe that all builders are inept unless they have an engineering degree. I always try to be objective and stay away from personal insinuations in my posts. 'Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.' - Sun Tzu. 'The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance. So, I will allow myself this one exception to trying to be objective.

I got lots of engineering stories like that. Working for a common goal rather selfagrandizement. Click to expand.I always try to be objective and stay away from personal insinuations in my posts.

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