We need to get beyond our ignorance of measurement standards. One of the common complaints about third party grinding wheels for the Tormek is that they are oversize. The diameter for the larger Tormek wheels is 250mm. Some of the third party wheels are around 253mm. My guess is that they were never intended to be 253mm or any metric size. I suspect some bozo ordered "10 inch" wheels. Guess what, they don't fit! And, they are probably manufactured in a metric country! The Tormek is a metric machine; let's let it be metric. (Interestingly enough, the threads for the adjustable feet on the Tormek Work Station are 5/8x13tpi, not metric. The work station is made in Germany for a Swedish company. Did they run out of metric threads?)
Sometimes we have very good standards which are ignored. POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) is generally used in a demeaning way. However, if one bothered to examine the tariff documents between the telephone companies and the state utility commissions, the minimum quality standard measurements are clearly spelled out. If a telephone line meets these required minimum standards for loop current, signal loss, noise and balance, the transmission quality for the line will be excellent, generally superior to the transmission of cel service. The problem is that most employees are either ignorant of these standards or ignore them; management is more concerned with their bonuses; customers are blissfully ignorant of them; and regulators don't seem interested. I was the oddball employee who cared about standards.
I think BESS standards are a long overdue excellent idea. With BESS, my distinguished collegues in Australia and I have a verifiable standard measurement for edge sharpness (even if we don't speak the same language
)
Thanks, Mike.
Ken
Sometimes we have very good standards which are ignored. POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) is generally used in a demeaning way. However, if one bothered to examine the tariff documents between the telephone companies and the state utility commissions, the minimum quality standard measurements are clearly spelled out. If a telephone line meets these required minimum standards for loop current, signal loss, noise and balance, the transmission quality for the line will be excellent, generally superior to the transmission of cel service. The problem is that most employees are either ignorant of these standards or ignore them; management is more concerned with their bonuses; customers are blissfully ignorant of them; and regulators don't seem interested. I was the oddball employee who cared about standards.
I think BESS standards are a long overdue excellent idea. With BESS, my distinguished collegues in Australia and I have a verifiable standard measurement for edge sharpness (even if we don't speak the same language
)Thanks, Mike.
Ken