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What are the right keywords to use when searching for the fittings? My ali efforts often get flooded with nonsense.
by fidotron 2y ago
What are the right keywords to use when searching for the fittings?
My ali efforts often get flooded with nonsense.
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- DannyBee 2y agoPipe racking connector Modular pipe connector Those do okay without you getting hundreds of irrelevant air hose fittings
- bluGill 2y agoIf it is structural I'd buy from a big place not Ali. Unless you have the ability to verify the material really has the claimed properties you need you should stick with a major trusted supplier who will either verify the factory produces fittings to spec, or test everything for you.
- potato3732842 2y agoPaying big bucks for a paper trail is almost never cost or time effective compared to just adding safety factor for "normal applications". And by "normal applications" I mean "please nobody be intentionally obtuse and start nit picking about aerospace applications and connecting rod bolts and whatnot".
- night862 2y agoI would nit-pick about your cantilever worktable failing because of a crappy fastener, killing your cat. Child even?
- potato3732842 2y agoThere will always be a weakest link. At some point you just gotta be an adult and not build things to within an inch of their lives for the use they will see and then have the self control to not push the limit. Resources are limited and engineering tradeoffs are everywhere. These discussions always devolve into absurdity very quickly.
- quickthrowman 2y ago“Don’t buy fittings made from Chinese pot metal” is a simple way to avoid catastrophic failure due to substandard materials.
- night862 2y agoIt just isn’t very absurd to worry that the question mark brand of load bearing fasteners are properly rated. I avoid the issue by not buying them, a lesson learned from my experience working in the QA field. I wouldn’t expect a teenager to have learned this lesson.
- bluGill 2y agoI don't need the paper trail just the quality it provide. That is often available for much less.
- fidotron 2y agoIf it is to support a human I would tend to agree, but for desks etc. I have found local supplies (Canada) have declined in quality to such a degree they need the level of QA on arrival the Chinese ones do while costing 5-10x as much.
- bluGill 2y agounfortunately the big box stores do not check quality. mcmaster which was pointed out above does and is a similar price. I am not sure about granger.
- rpcope1 2y agoIf you're buying hardware that has any possibility of harming someone or doing any amount of non-trivial damage if it fails from AliExpress or Amazon, you're doing it wrong and should reconsider whatever it is you're doing. Even the hardware from HD is generally pretty shitty these days. If you can't afford or won't go buy it from Fastenal or MMC or somewhere reputable, where you can expect the hardware you're buying actually adheres to a stated grade or spec, you just shouldn't do it.
- fidotron 2y agoI don’t know what you lot think is so dangerous about a few supports for netting that keeps the squirrels off the vegetables. Please spare us the safety lectures, we are adults.