flanges

When implemented cheaply using a split flanged socket, the plug can easily be pushed in backwards, spreading the flanges.

These stick in my ear with little silicon flanges and have a part that sits outside with the microphone.

The thinner steel on the DeLorean makes is easier to work with enabling larger panels which need fewer flanges.

And the flanges on the turbopump exhaust exist to facilitate redesign and inspection of the system.

Well old chap, you'll need a shoeshine box full of vacuum tubes and some brass flanges...

It's cold rolled steel which has nice properties but makes it difficult to install flanges.

Let's say there's a loading bay at the chemical plant with multiple flanges.

Once they know the exact shape they need they can construct a single pipe with two flanges instead of three pipes with six.

You also have to allow room for tie-downs, flanges, support blocks, etc.

If it were a good flange you'd get a call back and a $100k salary with 50k in stock over three years to make flanges.

Also neat fact about flanges, didn't know that either.

Imagine today if mechanical engineering was solely focused on not designing, but making specific types of flanges.

One day you ask yourself "why are we making flanges again?

For those of you who have never built a process plant or oil refinery, the piping in the plant is almost always fabricated off-site by specialist piping fabricators, who assemble "spools" from individual piping components like flanges, pipe and elbows.

Conversely, a stack of triclamp flanges, a straight length of pipe that shoots way out away from the guts of the equipment before it jogs sideways and down and back in with 90 degree couplings and gaskets and a manual shut-off valve and a pressure transmitter/flow meter and a "T" with a cap (just in case) and a sight glass looks like an awful mess.

While LLMs are a useful tool for software development, if you try asking them the software equivalent of “Create a plastic enclosure sized to go under a desk, ok add a usb receptacle opening, ok add flanges with standard screw holes” you'll end up with the equivalent of “No the other side.

Flanges get welded on, they get slapped on cribbing and trucked to you and then assembled with minimal labor.

Flanges make bigger failure points than a solid pipe due to the seals.