5mo ago

For your consideration, I submit my design for a new ASME standard. The Scaling Banana.

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How big is it? I need a banana for scale.
- ~~Approximately~~ Exactly one banana.
  
  I’ll have to take your word for it. Can’t tell just from the picture. This could be a banana for ants for all I know.
- @Zachariah@lemmy.world its made from a composite of 4 3d scans of bananas purchased from 3 different retailers. So it's the average size of your average banana.
  
  Average is 4 inches right?
It's also worth noting that in its final form it will be anodized yellow.
NIST about to sell this as a $2,900 standardized reference item just like the peanut butter
- @empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com that's the plan. I gotta pay for that M.E. degree somehow.
I would like to see the fixture holding that in place for each op in the machining process. I reckon you cut outside curve from a block then tapped the curve and operation 2 was held by a single bolt from underneath?
- @KingJalopy@lemm.ee The wood fixture was only used for the finishing pass and engraving for the top. The rest was just held in the billet by leaving a .020" layer around all sides.
  
  Damn that's pretty smart! I used to work P&D in the aerospace industry mostly designing tooling and working out new programs in vericut. I like your approach! Nice work!
Not to be confused with the near-identical ACME Exploding Banana.
Lemmy is so blessed to have this certified top-tier content.
This is so beautiful.
Other than the fact Australia will adopt it and I'll be left using nominal banana sizes based on the US banana.
It’s too bendy for the EU, isn’t it?
How many bananas does this mass?
- @DemBoSain@midwest.social it masses the same as 555.9 grams of bananas.

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