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This videos starts a series for a review of strength of materials. Face it, its been a long time since we used this. See all the videos in the course here or on...

Over the past 20 years, most of the hydraulic systems I've worked on have been between 2500 psi and 3000 psi (165 to 207 bar). There have been a few subsystems where the pressure was less (600 psi,...

Over the years, I have made and seen some bad hydraulic system designs. For the most part, these have be easily fixed. Others we just suffered through the consequences of bad design. Let's take a...

I was over at my neighbor's house watching him split wood. His father and uncle had built this log splitter nearly 20 years ago. Being that this was some redneck engineering going on, it worked,...

If Megan getting stuck wasn't bad enough, we now have foot long missing section of track. And no, the cart can't jump it. This video detail what happened, what the root cause is and how we are...

In early 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad was nearing completion in northern Utah. The Central Pacific Railroad was building from Sacramento, California and the Union Pacific from Omaha,...