Over the last few weeks, I've mentioned how solid rivets are sized by part number and selected for diameter and length . Solid rive...

The Thanksgiving Holiday here in the United States and some studying for a class have been keeping me busy, but I've been starting to ge...

Happy Thanksgiving to those in the United States.  Enjoy the holiday!  Here's a quick post on penetrant inspection for your consideratio...

One of the most insidious types of corrosion I learned about in my classes is intergranular corrosion.  Aluminum alloys containing copper, s...

I've had a mental idea to build a simple rack to hold bolts of fabric in Fusion 360.  It would look similar to this mobile pipe rack f...

Foreword This post is far off my usual topics.  It's a reflection on a little inspiration coming from the strangest places. But who...

In my last Wednesday, I talked briefly about how rivets are sized .  But what about how to choose a rivet for a given application? There...

A few counter sunk rivets corralled on my laptop One thing I've learned about aircraft fasteners is that their part numbering syst...

Last week I talked about how I used the Paste New functionality in Fusion 360 to quickly create a continuous hinge.  A close up of the c...

In the last few months, I've been spending a lot of time reading for my aircraft maintenance class.  I've been through my General te...

Before diving into my next post, I wanted to say that I'm glad the solution I shared to fix the broken threads issue in Autodesk Invent...

My threads! They don't work!  Earlier this week, I noticed that I couldn't select threads in my installation of Autodesk Invento...

This weekend I spent time away from the computer and got my hands sticky at an Experimental Aircraft Association Workshop on composite  con...