TANSTAAFL58
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Gather my nerdish brethren and sisteren...behold: Prime Nerd.
The Holy Book.
My Bible, as a member of the World's Second Oldest Profession. Yes, fellow freaks and geeks, I am a Mechanical Engineer. This is my copy of Machinery's Handbook, 20th Edition (1978). It contains all the holy verses: the parable of the Statically Indeterminate Beam. The stark beauty of the Kingsbury Thrust Bearing (the blue post-it), Standard Specifications for Ropes and Chains (and Shackles). The horror of the IFI Trial Metric Thread (fuck you very much, GM). Trig and Log tables. The Care and Feeding of the Slide Rule. Heat Treatment of Oil- and Water-Hardening Tool Steel. Conversion Tables. And the mysteries of the Sliding Fit. I should read that to you...maybe Monday.
https://i.ibb.co/x3JQ8nH/20240509-093932-01.jpg
The Holy Book.
My Bible, as a member of the World's Second Oldest Profession. Yes, fellow freaks and geeks, I am a Mechanical Engineer. This is my copy of Machinery's Handbook, 20th Edition (1978). It contains all the holy verses: the parable of the Statically Indeterminate Beam. The stark beauty of the Kingsbury Thrust Bearing (the blue post-it), Standard Specifications for Ropes and Chains (and Shackles). The horror of the IFI Trial Metric Thread (fuck you very much, GM). Trig and Log tables. The Care and Feeding of the Slide Rule. Heat Treatment of Oil- and Water-Hardening Tool Steel. Conversion Tables. And the mysteries of the Sliding Fit. I should read that to you...maybe Monday.
https://i.ibb.co/x3JQ8nH/20240509-093932-01.jpg