Re: aluminum machining? A q that is technical but not bicyclic

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:18:53 -0500, Ben C <spamspam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2008-10-26, carlfogel@xxxxxxxxxxx <carlfogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:32:22 +0100, Lou Holtman
<lholditniet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

M-gineering wrote:
carlfogel@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


Sorry, but this sounds like cognitive dissonance:

Step 32. We got it [the keyboard] off! Phew. It took about 15 minutes
to remove all the [56] screws. . . .

Step 33. Wow! What an incredible machine. We are very impressed by the
ease with which the new MacBook Pro came apart.
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/First-Look/Mac/MacBook-Pro-Unibody/Page-1

Maybe 112 screws and 30 minutes would have been even more incredible,
impressive, and easy?

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

undoing 56 screws is a little work with an electric screwdriver but it
is not difficult. On the other hand, undoing a couple of impossible to
reach snapfittings in exploding plastic.......


Exactly! I prefer unscrewing 56 screws knowing beforehand that they will
not break. I wish that the door panels of my car had screws.

Lou

Dear Lou, Marten, and Ryan,

Can anyone think of an even faintly similar piece of equipment that
requires 56 screws to restrain it?

This is the kind of bold engineering breakthrough that we expect from
people working with hammers and shingles on roofs, not from companies
boasting about CNC machining reducing parts count.

You have to buy a highwheeler before you need more than 48 "screws" to
hold your bicycle rim together.

It still sounds like cognitive dissonance.

Imagine the RBT reaction to a modern bicycle that used 56 screws to
hold something as small and lightly stressed as a laptop keyboard in
place.

I'd love to see an Apple video with a couple of vice-presidents of
design explaining what a fantastic breakthrough it was when they saw
some guys shingling a roof and realized that laptop keyboards had been
attached incorrectly all these years.

One reason for all the screws may be because they've copied the ZX
Spectrum design of keys individually sticking up through holes cut in
the top panel. It spoils the illusion of individual keys if the whole
keyboard buckles and separates noticeably from the top panel as you
type.

Dear Ben,

If so, then Apple copied a bad design. There are plenty of laptops
whose keyboards work just fine without such nonsense. And Mossberg's
review failed to note anything wonderful about the keyboard.

Fixing a single key should not require taking the whole laptop apart
and then removing and replacing 56 #000 screws.

What would RBT posters say about a 56-spoke bicycle wheel that
required removing and reinstalling all the spokes to fix one broken
spoke?

Cheers,

Carl Fogel
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