Mostly Satisfactory - Episode 29 - Putting the Topper on Copper

Program

0:00 Intro

4:18 Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho

9:35 Designing With Maintenance in Mind

23:05 A Grandpa Moment About Telephone Design

28:50 Ficsit, We Have a Problem…

40:24 Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming…

47:42 Everything is Workin’!

More Information
  • While talking about reaching high up places to perform repairs, I mentioned “cherry pickers“.
  • Later on, I talked about the need to design ease of maintenance into various products and then I talked about old style televisions and radios which used vacuum tubes.  I also talked about tube tester machines that were located in places like drug stores. 
  • The reference to organ doners and Monty Python‘s the Meaning of Life can be found here.
  • I made the distinction between a tachometer (a real thing) and the tackyometer (something I made up).
  • As I cobbled together a workaround for my conveyors that will not go through rock… I mentioned that the workaround conveyor would make an awesome track in Mario Kart.
  • I mentioned Tom Petty and the Waiting is the Hardest Part.