06-13-2018, 10:00 AM
Well, as we said in an earlier post, we're listening. There may be a slight delay in travel time from our ears to our brains but, eventually, the message does arrive. Pictured below are two pictures of the same prototype. We used one of our unplated ATF fixtures to test with.
As you can see we have cabbaged on to Greppers and Rick Kr's thoughts with regard to this fixture. The clamping design is composed of a knurled nut spinning on a 8/32 stud set on a 45° angle which corresponds with the 45° chamfer. This design offers many possibilities with regard to rerunning test media including leaving the fixture in place on the instrument while test media is rerun. In all cases it is much faster and requires less hand/finger dexterity. The machined relief and old screw hole mounting location will disappear in production units. Production units will be nickel plated.
Another plus is that because we have left what BESSU terms "Test Media Run Length" substantially unchanged, the design change already has preliminary BESS approval. We are making plans now for a new production run and anticipate that the new run will incorporate these changes.
Next project will be our version of Mark Reich's "cork in a fulcrum" idea.
As you can see we have cabbaged on to Greppers and Rick Kr's thoughts with regard to this fixture. The clamping design is composed of a knurled nut spinning on a 8/32 stud set on a 45° angle which corresponds with the 45° chamfer. This design offers many possibilities with regard to rerunning test media including leaving the fixture in place on the instrument while test media is rerun. In all cases it is much faster and requires less hand/finger dexterity. The machined relief and old screw hole mounting location will disappear in production units. Production units will be nickel plated.
Another plus is that because we have left what BESSU terms "Test Media Run Length" substantially unchanged, the design change already has preliminary BESS approval. We are making plans now for a new production run and anticipate that the new run will incorporate these changes.
Next project will be our version of Mark Reich's "cork in a fulcrum" idea.