{"id":599,"date":"2010-08-25T09:48:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T16:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2010-08-25T09:48:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T16:48:12","slug":"breaking-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/breaking-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Things!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Engineering is fun!  To make sure that our products will stand up to contractors&#8217; use and abuse, I&#8217;ve got to go out and break our gear on a regular basis.  Do I mind?  No!<br \/>\n  The challenge most times is finding a means of racking the part into my partner in crime, the 10,000lb Dillon-Weigh Tronix UTM tensile tester.  Some days I wish I had a bigger machine in-house, but I can break stuff at the local material labs (up to 100,000lb and beyond) on special occasions.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<!--more Continue Reading This Post--><br \/>\n  In this case, we&#8217;re working in the lower registers, below 500lb.  I had to find some small connections to test the strength of the threaded rod end on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/3-16-detectable-duct-rodder.htm\">new 3\/16&#8243; detectable rodder<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve got plenty of big shackles and eyes, but really had to scavenge to find the little stuff!<br \/>\n  The 3\/16&#8243; threaded end is permanently bonded to the fiberglass rod with a typical cyanoacrylate adhesive (read &#8220;Crazy Glue&#8221;).  It&#8217;s a close tolerance fit normally, but the detectable rod has an additional strand of conductor that has to maintain continuity with the rod end.<br \/>\n  It took a few tries to measure the bond strength.  First the rod jacket slipped out of the clamps.  Then the #12 thread sheared and split off the end.  Finally I clamped the collar of the rod end and cranked the screws deep into the fiberglass core.  I still couldn&#8217;t break the glue bond!<br \/>\n  A good day: valid test results, some photos for documentation and a swath of wreckage.  Time for another cup of coffee.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Broken-Male-Rod-End.jpg\" alt=\"Broken Male Rod End\" title=\"Broken Male Rod End\" width=\"472\" height=\"318\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineering is fun! To make sure that our products will stand up to contractors&#8217; use and abuse, I&#8217;ve got to go out and break our gear on a regular basis. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[201,137,76,202],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","tag-201","tag-detectable","tag-rodders","tag-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}