Hey guys, I'm fresh out of school with my engineering degree and quickly realizing I'm going to lose 99% of what I learned now that I'm in industry. I'm looking to keep my skills sharp by making YouTube videos on different engineering topics related to firearms (e.g. analyzing different designs, stress analyses of different parts, thermal analyses, idk). I figured you guys may have some good video ideas yourselves.
What questions would you like to see answered?
troubleshooting issues with various parts that derive from how it was machined vs how it was engineered
this sounds fun, any examples come to mind?
barrels, feed ramps, magazine wells, magazine lips, moving parts in the general trigger mechanism
Analyze dn
1. tell me what you think about the Pedersen hesitation lock
2. give me your youtube channel so I can subscribe and then judge your terrible voice and presentation skills
haven't made one yet
You can troll my glove knife video if you'd like.
I contacted bear grylls and Ted nugent on email neither have responded.
Any criticism is good I'm just a prostitute for attention at this point and the jannies got me locked from threads
>wtf are barrel harmonics and how do they work?
>does cartridge taper matter (and under what conditions does it make a difference)?
>in what scenarios are screws and roll pins interchangeable vs. one being significantly better than another
>how do you properly size a gas tube?
>how do Berettas make their owners homosexual?
Start simple
>difference between short stroke vs long stroke systems
>muzzle velocities comparison at varying barrel lengths
>5.56 vs 7.62x39 comparison
10 yr engineer here
you'd be better served by checking out what regulatory/certifications you need to set up your own firm.
I just started taking private contracts lady year, I make low 6 figures + benefits from my day job, and 200/hr on the side
Don't think I'm qualified enough to have my own firm just yet. Thinking this could be a good way to get better in my spare time
>Hey guys, I'm fresh out of school with my engineering degree and quickly realizing I'm going to lose 99% of what I learned
That's because 99% of what you learned isn't used in the industry on a day-to-day basis. (Unless you're a manufacturing engineer with a strong background in machining). I've been in the defense industry for about 10 years, I have two masters and most of what drives my work isn't derived from academic knowledge alone. You graduated with a base of knowledge, but that's just what it is, a base. A graduate degree might give you a slight edge in critical thinking and the ability to find the answers by yourself. Making gun videos won't help you retain how to solve PDEs, statistics don't matter that much in firearms design, it's more of a QC problem, although there's some of it in tolerance stack analysis and six sigma (don't get me started on this snake oil). Fluid dynamics are not used in firearms, although they are in ammo-design, but a ballistician will use empirical data more than trying to compute a drag coeff from a 2d sketch alone. Coursework in materials MAY help explain why you'd use 7075 vs 6061 vs 5052, or why a bolt is 9130 and why the carrier is 8620. Vibration/acoustics might help you state the problem of barrel harmonics, like:
>wtf are barrel harmonics and how do they work?
Holy shit good luck with that
Don't get me wrong, you can model parts and do some basic FEA on it for shits and giggles, but you just don't have the experience to explain much about firerams yet.
You're also going to experience pushback from a lot of regurgitated misinformation or just lack of understanding. Every other week on /k/ there's a dumb discussion about heat conduction in brass and whether guns would overheat in space or whether polymer cased ammo makes the chamber hotter or cooler. I don't think you're going to have fun, you'll put in a lot of work with very little reward. I'd personally suggest working on your career. Good luck, though
I really appreciate the advice. I'm currently doing manufacturing engineering at one of the big aerospace companies, so perhaps not too different from you.
It may not be well-received/watched or whatever, but tbh I just want to solve problems that I don't encounter every day at work. Like you said, my main focus will be at work since that's where my money comes in, but I wanted to do something on the side as well.
Why tf did "desu" just get dropped in the middle of my sentence
In that case, stay close to what you know really well, and stay well clear of things you're not 100% sure you understand. As you're a manufacturing engineer, you're in a great position to explain what a forging is, how they are made, how they are clamped in a CNC for the finishing ops, how the magwell is broached, what kind of tools are used, a short explanation of feeds and speeds, finishing processes (tumbling, blasting, shot peen) what anodize is (type II, III), magphos, black oxide, nitriding, heat treat (martensitic vs austenitic, what is a case hardness), all that good stuff that is easy to grasp but would be very interesting for the /k/ autists.
FW's video about the Radom is hella interesting, and you could expand on all the ops that you see in firearms production.
"t.b.h" is automatically changed into "desu" on PrepHole
Thanks man
Go on about six sigma being snake oil. I'm annew manufacturing engineer. And their are rumblings of pushing it hard on the production floor.
Six Sigma is basically a set of tools to improve quality, product, customer satisfaction, yada yada..It's time consuming intellectual masturbation so that 12 mediocre people can approximate a solution that 1 brilliant and experienced thinker would've easily come up with on the spot. Typical corporate "continuous improvement" word salads that are packaged into basic statistics and pretty powerpoints, and sold to management-type people so that they can force their "techniques" unto technical-type people. The reason it works so well is that it ultimately helps large companies understand the underlying problems by sheer virtue of speaking the same cult-y language. It doesn't work as well on small-mid companies because it's just common sense with extra steps. Say you have an high failure rate at QC, Six Sigma can explain to you in 25 slides, over 3 hours, at a cost of probably tens of thousands of dollars, that you just need to increase your tolerance or design your thing differently. Six Sigma "practitioners" (cringe), identified by their "green/black" belts (ultra-cringe) believe and push it as a dogmatic change, and whenever it doesn't work, it's because you didn't believe in it enough. If your management has too many meetings, just wait until Six Sigma gets implemented, it gets worse, they'll continuously try to force frick every issue through their notional pyramid scheme. There's a reason whenever you talk to a proponent of Six Sigma you feel like you're being sold something. It's because you are, and it's because it's a commercial product. At least ISO9001 and AS9100 fricks don't have that weird "yes man" attitude where you think everything gets solved by the dozen tools you learned to get your colored belt.
ISO9001 schitzo here. Vi vill follow ze process in ze ims
CZ-75 prototype vs production model, was it really better before?
Stoner vs M-16, was it really supposed to be "self-cleaning"?
Black Rhino ammunition, was it ever real?
Maadi-Griffen BMG, what was it and what happened to the guy who made it?
Mythbusters on putting bullets between your fingers and holding your hand in a fire like in Shoot Em Up
Second Chance vests, did they really make them out of dreams and Chinesium?
Dragonscale armour, was it crap or was it a hit job?
How does the one-handed mode on a Spas-12 work?
If you wanted to help improve the 3dprinted receiver space, you could break down different existing firearms designs, go into how forces are calculated for different types of actions, how changing the geometry of things like locking lugs can be calculated to effect timing of an action, etc. And while you will get a ton of fug/dogmatic repetition/mindless hate in your comments, you may see some good questions related to the topic, which can help you generate ideas of how to expand upon a video/series you have already produced, or how to take your next video a step deeper in analysis. Just don't tie yourself to some rigid upload schedule. Post vids when you think you have answered a few basic points, take a bit of criticism thats offered constructively, ignore all the bs (it's the internet, it's all fake and gay) and hopefully your vids can be monetized to pay you back for your time.
Lots of good suggestions above. Manufacturing and product development are your best course. Extract your chosen issues from that experience. Find industry-wide practices that you think need work. Develop your ideas. If you get lucky, an idea may catch on. Profiting from that is even harder.
I would like you to do a video on the Winchester model 1892, specifically I'd like you to examine what modifications could be done to get one to feed longer cartridges. Lever actions are very cartridge overall length sensitive/intolerant.
Out of the factory they will feed 1.6 inch cartridges, but theoretically you could get them to feed 1.9 inch cartridges given the action's length.
What could you do to accomplish this?
>Graduate knowing
>Forget it
>End up needing it
>Relearn it realizing you forgot less than you thought
Are you familiar with tipman propane paintball guns?
They get 50,000 shots per propane tank, the portable green ones.
How do we make a propane bb or pellet rifle gun? A bb gun could be automatic.
Pic related is a gun I use to shoot blowgun darts.
All it is, an aluminum baseball bat with 2 holes, and a self igniting torch