The Ohio Random Thread... aka We Should Probably Be Working

[WillD]

I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to so they can blast and prep them. The seals at the very least would get destroyed in the oven that cooks the powder coating.

I'm not sure about taking the pistons out though as I've never done that before.

 

[aMaff]

Yeah, you'll need to rebuild the calipers completely.

 

[thejeans]

^ hence why painting is the preferred option, not many people have the means to be out a car while the calipers get powdercoated or the desire to rebuild the caliper after powdercoating haha

 

[WillD]

Rebuilding the caliper doesn't seem too difficult. Once I get the Miata out of storage I can be out a car for a while too so that isn't an issue.

 

[magnumP5]

FWIW, the "pitted" appearance comes from the caliper itself, not the paint. Most OEM calipers are cast steel (more than likely some kind of sand casting) and that's what gives it that "pitted" surface finish. You'd still get a slightly uneven surface even with powdercoating unless you smooth out the surface beforehand. A lot of the aftermarket calipers are aluminum, which even if cast, has a finer grain structure so the surface finish is nicer. Some are milled, which gives an even better finish. The front calipers on my RX-7 are cast aluminum and even though they're painted they look much better than the rears.

 

[WillD]

Yeah I was hoping the blasting/prep process for powder coating would smooth that out a bit maybe?

 

[aMaff]

Yeah I was hoping the blasting/prep process for powder coating would smooth that out a bit maybe?

Highly unlikely.

 

[magnumP5]

Yeah, I'd think you'd need to go to town with some kind of finishing wheel.

 

[thejeans]

so.... you engineers will get a laugh but today i have been given the opportunity to go through the contractors shop drawings for a large soldier beam and lagging retaining wall... since we are the "arch/eng" on the project we have to sign off on all others work, looking at their shop drawings makes me want to bash my face against my desk repeatedly!

 

[fishdonotbounce]

Whatsa wroong? You can't handle pretty pictures?

 

[princess peach]

here's what I'd do: bash their head on the desk, repeatedly

 

[thejeans]

Whatsa wroong? You can't handle pretty pictures?

dude im a CAD Monkey/Designer, i MAKE the pretty pictures! hahaha

but no we had specific details for angles on this wall, and since we are dealing with clearances of of less than 2" in areas thanks to underground utilities, they need to be exact, well the contractor came in with his shop drawings, and TOTALLY butchered both angles, not only did he propose to put them on the wrong side of the beam, he totally ****** up the angles too... there is no easy to go about this, well let me correct that, the easy way would be to tell him he is a ******* dumbass and do exactly what is on our drawings, but you have to be professional so we have to be polite and show him the errors and be nice about it, what a waste of an afternoon this is going to be, i have to now create drawings to show how and why the contractor is a dipshit

here's what I'd do: bash their head on the desk, repeatedly

hahahah, that would certainly make me feel better haha

 

[THE Phen]

Whatsa wroong? You can't handle pretty pictures?

I HATE looking at CAD drawings done by engineers. The shop drawings we get from our vendors are usually pretty good, but I've had some really bad ones come in.

 

[XCLR8TN]

dude im a CAD Monkey/Designer, i MAKE the pretty pictures! hahaha

hey, me too!

I HATE looking at CAD drawings done by engineers. The shop drawings we get from our vendors are usually pretty good, but I've had some really bad ones come in.

:squint: lol

 

[thejeans]

hey, me too!

awesome! (thumb) i have someone that can understands my aggravations then hahaha

 

[CTt3P5]

I don't make them but from time to time I'm asked to dig into the plan files to pull older drawings to be scanned. Oldest drawings I've pulled were drawn in the 1920's!

 

[ajkulish]

Got my oil from shine box today!

 

[magnumP5]

I'm constantly amazed designers are capable of turning my incoherent engineering scribbles into issued drawings. Although our auditing process here is getting rediculous lately. It takes me 2 months to issue modification drawings because of all the additional checks and reviews it has to go through. The whole purpose of modification drawings was to quickly issue changes and get hardware! In the past I could literally mark up an existing drawing, sign it and scan it in and that would be enough to issue a modification drawing and get parts moving.

/engineering rant

 

[o0n8]

getting paid while sitting at home! Best new job ever! thy haven't given me my computer yet so they sent me home for the rest of the day paid and are going to do that til IT brings a computer.

 

[WillD]

Wow lucky you. (2thumbs)