Yesterday, Eric informed me that my Powercordz had arrived.
Now, I just received a call. My blood sample returned from the lab. I can't wait to strike off the whole licensing issue from my to-do list!
Now, I just received a call. My blood sample returned from the lab. I can't wait to strike off the whole licensing issue from my to-do list!
Image irrelevant.These past few days, I've reflected on my project. Eric pointed out major flaws with my drawings:
1. shading of the lids on the section views
2. missing top views for vacuum chamber wall and both lids
3. inlet port bores on the vacuum chamber wall should be indicated by hyphenated lines
4. bores should be demonstrated on a side view
5. O-ring diameter should be indicated, because it seems like the O-ring is bound vertically
6. the lids and chamber sections should be well indicated, because at any time, it gets confusing which is the hollow part to the person interpreting the drawing
I really owe him one - he has no obligation to help me out, and it can be very boring to help someone with this type of things.
My original source of quotations turned down the machining job because the dimensions of the vacuum wall were too big for their machine. The glass fabricator turned down the job too: fortunately, perhaps because I'm starting to think that a ceramic base plate is safer, because the filament heats up to >1080 degrees Celsius - where Pyrex could shatter. I did reduce the size of the chamber because I knew this would happen, but I guess it wasn't enough. I could reduce it further if I could saturate a magnetic field beyond 1.4T, but it's even more challenging to do that.
Then I remember how Fernando has been pouring >20 hours of work into this, for no credit at all, despite his filled weeks.
And I thought, I'm really glad for this year because it has taught me that you could have friends(?) who are very close to you, circumstantially, proximity-wise... but you never know how those who bail you out in times of need could be people whom you barely know in person. That includes Eric, who has never met me in person and could mail me an AX-Lightness seatpost (298,00 €) before I even paid him.
My mother told me the stories of how she needed guarantors for my brother and sister's university loans. She approached, in person, her 30-plus-years-long friends dating from her school days, but all of them turned her down. One by one, they came up with excuses not to sign those documents. They didn't want to be financially liable, although there was nothing to suggest that my siblings would default payment of their loans.
Desperate, she sent a short message to a person that she had only known through work - and for 2 years at that - and the person immediately replied, "Yes," to her request.
When I started this year, I thought that all life is problem solving. But I learned from this project that life is not merely encountering apertures and bending past them, but also responding to phase changes; finding other waves of resonating frequency; constructive interference with these waves, by which at the end of the day, you'll see beautiful diffraction patterns.
Not all life is problem solving.
1. shading of the lids on the section views
2. missing top views for vacuum chamber wall and both lids
3. inlet port bores on the vacuum chamber wall should be indicated by hyphenated lines
4. bores should be demonstrated on a side view
5. O-ring diameter should be indicated, because it seems like the O-ring is bound vertically
6. the lids and chamber sections should be well indicated, because at any time, it gets confusing which is the hollow part to the person interpreting the drawing
I really owe him one - he has no obligation to help me out, and it can be very boring to help someone with this type of things.
My original source of quotations turned down the machining job because the dimensions of the vacuum wall were too big for their machine. The glass fabricator turned down the job too: fortunately, perhaps because I'm starting to think that a ceramic base plate is safer, because the filament heats up to >1080 degrees Celsius - where Pyrex could shatter. I did reduce the size of the chamber because I knew this would happen, but I guess it wasn't enough. I could reduce it further if I could saturate a magnetic field beyond 1.4T, but it's even more challenging to do that.
Then I remember how Fernando has been pouring >20 hours of work into this, for no credit at all, despite his filled weeks.
And I thought, I'm really glad for this year because it has taught me that you could have friends(?) who are very close to you, circumstantially, proximity-wise... but you never know how those who bail you out in times of need could be people whom you barely know in person. That includes Eric, who has never met me in person and could mail me an AX-Lightness seatpost (298,00 €) before I even paid him.
My mother told me the stories of how she needed guarantors for my brother and sister's university loans. She approached, in person, her 30-plus-years-long friends dating from her school days, but all of them turned her down. One by one, they came up with excuses not to sign those documents. They didn't want to be financially liable, although there was nothing to suggest that my siblings would default payment of their loans.
Desperate, she sent a short message to a person that she had only known through work - and for 2 years at that - and the person immediately replied, "Yes," to her request.
When I started this year, I thought that all life is problem solving. But I learned from this project that life is not merely encountering apertures and bending past them, but also responding to phase changes; finding other waves of resonating frequency; constructive interference with these waves, by which at the end of the day, you'll see beautiful diffraction patterns.
Not all life is problem solving.
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