Isaac Fain wrote:
>Engineering and breaking stuff: engineering is a process, and that process
>is iterative. Breaking things and gathering data from controlled tests is a
>_required_ feedback loop to the design process, I don't care what it is
>that's being engineered. To ignore the importance of this process is just
>admitting ignorance of what engineering is, and to not visualize how this
>rule applies to our enthusiast oriented, shade-tree, lego mentality of
>putting our Rovers together is dangerous on top of ignorant.
>
Of course a good engineer also would not ignore testing that has
already been done. In the case of the Series vehicles, we have
decades of real world testing and feedback at our disposal. We
don't each need to individually break a ten spline axle to find
out about it's lack of strength.
Tim Czajka
1972 Series III 88
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