Principles of Joint Integrity - What Is Galling?

Boy, have you ever got a lot of gall. Spam.

Hi Tornado,

We developed these videos as an industry resource to learn about commonly misunderstood problems affecting joint integrity. May I ask you why you consider it spam? It would be useful to know for future editions.

Thank you for your time.

Jack of all trades,

Thank you for the suggestion and my apologies if this is in the inappropriate section of the website. The video is meant as a discussion and learning tool, but good feedback to see it is not being interpreted as such.

Much appreciated,

Ryder

And the phrase "seized nuts" is just a downer.

Yeah, but if your wife seizes them, can't that be an upper?

According to one delightfully uncontrolled experiment, yes.

Or a downer, depending on motive ??

Tornado,

Thank you again for your comments. They have been helpful to gain an outside perspective on the content.

I don't know the target audience, but it's WAY too basic for engineers.

Marketeers may like to show it to prospective clients who are not engineers or service techs.

Guys who turn the wrenches don't care what causes it, they just want to know how to prevent it IF they think they will have to work on it later.

Stoners may be drawn to the title, but the animation won't hold their attention.

Who is the prospective audience?

lyn,

Thanks for your reply - great to hear your feedback. You are correct that it is not purely targeted at Engineers, but also maintenance managers, schedulers, and the like. Even though the information may be quite basic in your eyes, we have seen quite a bit of misconception within our industry (Energy) at all levels, from an Engineer to a service technician.

You brought up some excellent points - I will be sharing them with our team. Thank you again.

This is especially true if you watch these videos in a shared office environment where you want the sound at a low level to avoid disturbing others.

spades,

Thank you for this feedback. I will definitely be considering this in our future releases. Would you suggest lowering the music significantly, or removing it altogether?

Either would be acceptable, I understand the desire for a bit of pizazz in the presentation, but it is a common problem in these types of videos and most documentaries that the musical director is allowed to go crazy with the volume control.

You're clearly trying to put a point across, so at least let us hear it clearly

A little DAB will do ya!

Thank you, wrenchtwirler!

This is a great point - thank you for the feedback. I'll have to look into different hosting methods outside of YouTube / Vimeo. Perhaps we can have a standalone player on our website.

The background music is somewhat mesmerizing and soon becomes monotonous and boring, kinda like name that tune of the nursery rhyme you thought you might of heard in kindergarten.

I never thought much about " asperities " or " electron clouds " when dealing with galled fasteners, rather I just thought about grinders, sledge hammers and cold chisels.

I should say that you are fairly familiar with stuck fasteners, although yours are mainly due to corrosion and rust from all that swamper water!

Yes rusty Swamp water, I think I will post a question, thanks.

Pretty good presentation. Most of your terms sere defined well. Watch out for words that your target audience may not be familiar with and make sure that you provide good definitions for each of them or you will lose your audience part way thru the presentation.

I taught engineering at college level for several years and found that misunderstood terms were hampering my students ability to be able to apply what was being taught.

We started producing glossaries with the specific meanings we were using for key terms or unusual terms in our lectures with good results. The students got more from the presentations and could apply what they were learning much more easily and successfully.

Your off to a good start. Please continue.

Dan A

Actually, the video is pretty good; I learned some things. Like some others, I thought the twinkly music eventually got in the way, but that's minor. My initial asperitive comment was based on the unrelatedness of "joint integrity" and "galling"; which almost seemed like a bait-and-switch.