Proudest Engineering Achievement of All Time
I found a typo in the Machinery Handbook, 24th Edition.
The Machinery Handbook is the Bible of manufacturing. It is 2500 pages of formulas, tables, and engineering goodness. A couple weeks ago, I went to the section on screws (as I am the queen of fasteners), and pulled out some dimensions and tolerances for an externally threaded part with M35 x 1.5 threads. One of the dimensions was wrong.
It looked kinda wrong to me when I compared it to the other dimensions in the table but it took me a couple days to get around to check the number with the formulas from the handbook. In the mean time, our supplier had consulted their Machinery Handbook, with the same typo, and modified their tool to the wrong dimension. Now, it's going to take 3 weeks and like $2K to make it right. Can we sue the publisher and make them pay for the changes?

1 Comments:
that's AWESOME!! I definitely say go to the publisher, but maybe don't mention that you put off checking, because that could imply that you're at fault.
Post a Comment
<< Home