Thread: The lightening project

Originally Posted by Stocky

Having an Engineering Degree (not mechanical) I'd be hesitant of putting little to any salt in a "qualification" most learning occurs after the "qualification" and many people I've dealt with that i would say are competent have no official qualifications. I guess I have a problem with made up qualifications determining competency. You can pass a degree with a 50% average. Qualifications nowadays are there own product and industry.

Short of an actual proof house a destructive test could be done on something like this or anyone with CAD skills can do an FEA making assumptions for worst case and allowing an appropriate FOS.

Sorry not going to discuss semantics because somebody does not believe in qualifications.