wtibbit
Well-known member
- First Name
- Wayne
- Joined
- Aug 27, 2020
- Threads
- 12
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- 819
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- Location
- DFW
- Vehicles
- Cybertruck AWD FS, Mercedes sedan, Corvette coupe, 1968 Cougar XR-7
- Occupation
- Retired Engineering Program Director
Hah, my 15 seconds of fame!4) Oh, and a quote from our forum! So feel free to shame him here, he'll see it: "Or, as one of the Cybertruck Owner Club’s forum participants, quipped in response to Musk’s email: “If all of the CTs parts were either soda cans or legos this would be an easy command to obey.”
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Both the author of the article and, sadly, fritter63 missed the point.
Soda cans typically have three components that comprise the total product; lego blocks have one. Automobiles have 10s of thousands of parts. My point was this: the task of meeting the dimensional tolerances for all three (or one) parts in a soda can (or lego block) is easy to do, compared to doing so for a complex vehicle.
Shame away, fritter63, if you think a rather obvious observation deserves it.
Finally, for those who would like to better understand the complexities of establishing required component tolerance requirements (for assemblies) without over-specifying those tolerances, as needed to meet the total assembly's dimensional and performance requirements, look up "tolerance stacking" and "six sigma".
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