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Alabama thread!

Discussion in 'Alabama' started by Davtopgun, May 18, 2009.

  1. Aug 29, 2019 at 7:15 AM
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    lol I did designs at my last job and passed that crap off to the cad department. screw doing cad I say. leave that to someone with a drafting degree.
     
  2. Aug 29, 2019 at 7:16 AM
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    Concept drawings for Boeing's next gen airplane design.
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  3. Aug 29, 2019 at 7:17 AM
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    less "flying" more "grounding" if you know what I mean.
     
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  4. Aug 29, 2019 at 7:17 AM
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    Hey man, your such a fart smeller! I mean, smart feller.... I'll check in with @Built2Ride and see if he's headed up there...
     
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  5. Aug 29, 2019 at 7:17 AM
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    I wish. We don't have drafters at the moment. We're also doing too many design changes to really make having drafters feasible.
     
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  6. Aug 29, 2019 at 7:18 AM
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    makes sense. I would get annoyed when I needed something changed and it'd take like a week because they had other drawings to do and I'm like "can I just make this change?" but they wouldn't pay me to learn/do cad so...
     
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  7. Aug 29, 2019 at 7:19 AM
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    Because that requires time to design, source material, build, test then rebuild. I ain't got any time.
     
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  8. Aug 29, 2019 at 7:21 AM
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  9. Aug 29, 2019 at 7:22 AM
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    That exactly it. We're doing design copies at the moment and scrubbing BOMs for obsolescence. Dealing with stuff it would take forever to convey to drafters.
     
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  10. Aug 29, 2019 at 7:23 AM
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    It can be, but I don't roll like that. I'm not in to copying stuff that's already being built.
     
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    that's copying a design...
     
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    that's my guess too, or that it's just a 3rd gen problem. my stiffeners have been great, but now my bed rack acts as stiffeners too lol.
     
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    This the BS that sets my cameras off at night

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  15. Aug 29, 2019 at 7:32 AM
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    bruh I had a bird land on my front door handle and set my ring doorbell off late at night, scared the bageezus out of me.
     
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    but that 2nd gen doesn't have stiffeners...
     
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    I wonder if bed bars will help hold the bedsides together? I almost bought those SOS ones from a member here, mainly to add rigidity to my bed. I'll eventually go the bed stiffener route as well.
     
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    and I refuted that with "3rd gen probs" which we all know is a concrete/factual reason. if you had shown a 2nd gen with stiffeners that the bed continued to move....different story....but we only have evidence of a 3rd gen...
     
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    yes.
     
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    Yeah, you're not Chinese...:eek:
     

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