10 microns = .01 mm = .0004 inch
Someone please get this dork into a locker already
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precision predicates balls
For a super smart inspirational genius, he sure is doing the usual terrible corporate boss routine.
”Here’s a bullshit goal I want you to meet all of a sudden. How are you going to do it? That’s your problem, not mine.”
I really don’t want to come across as a Musk apologist, but blasts like this from a ceo can be effective and making a difference. Imagine you’re an engineer who wants to produce a great piece of machinery to tight tolerances, but your boss is yelling at you to meet deadlines. Now you have something to point to when they’re saying to cut quality. The organization needs to be able to handle this kind of pushback, but it can work.
If your’re such a fucken genius why don’t you just make the cars out of lego and beer cans then? Ever think of that ya fucken knob?
Bro I wish I had rifles with that kind of tolerance
I imagine they would stop working when the temperature shifted a few degrees from whatever temp they were specced at
you don’t own different guns for each temperature?
Attaching a cicada to the barrel of each gun, so I know which one I’m clear to fire.
The mental image of this has me cackling. I hope they’re tactic-cool cicadas
Give them each tiny balaclavas
I’m picturing them all bolted together like a pan flute
Email? He doesn’t send down dictates via Xeet now?
Critical support for
demanding sub-human hair tolerances for the panels of that shitbox. I’m sure you will get it done for a bargain.Five hours later, in another email: “Sorry everybody I was super high when I sent that last one your way.”
No way he’s ever said sorry for anything
I’ve used waterjet, CNC, and EDM parts. The waterjets typically give me ~100 micron accuracy, CNC ~20 micron and EDM ~10 micron.
“All parts of the vehicle”
At my old shop they gave the job of running the EDM to the old dude who regularly fell asleep during his shift.
What I’m saying is that those machines are slow as hell.
For years, the production rate of cybertruck was 0/year.
Musk wants us to use EDM to manufacture all the parts, so we’re committed to producing a single cybertruck a year
Yeah just cut out the body in waterjet, how hard can it be?
Doesn’t temperature affect precision within that range? Like when the parts cool down, they’ll be unprecise.
I like how he explains what a micron is as if the people who actually build things at Tesla don’t know
and honestly a little jankiness will just contribute to the PS1 aesthetic, he should want to lean into it for meme marketing purposes
Precision predicates perfectionism
Perfectionism is seen as a counterproductive and bad thing most of the time. Someone should tell King Bazinga that, if only there was someone around him that wasn’t afraid for their job.
The 80/20 principle is where you work 80 hours on the weekdays and 20 hours on the weekends because we need to get this out perfect and also yesterday.
tbh I can’t debunk any of that, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he’s tripling the cost of parts that are just going to get smashed into a pole after Full Self-Driving over a crowded crosswalk.
Beyond cost increases, it also slows down your fabrication (you literally can’t cut as fast if you want things to be smooth). Making perfect parts is not as challenging as making pretty good parts that will work great at a third of the cost and twice as fast.
Elmo seriously sent that to everyone in the company? When that information was maybe relevant to a handful of people?
That information is relevant to zero people because it’s impossible to make anything out of bent sheet metal with a .0004" tolerance. He may as well have asked for a working car made out of cheese.
at least when the doors lock and it’s melting you could chew your way out
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Given that teslas have notoriously bad tolerances, like gaps on the order of millimeters, ya might want to fix the cause of that first lol.
This is how “entrepreneurs” “innovate”. They just say they want something and everybody else tries to work around the roadblocks the CEO probably put in place that make achieving the goal way harder than necessary.
yea nah. I doubt anything outside of the electronics requires that tolerance. Including any of the bearings. The finest grade of sand is about 62 microns. LEGO and soda cans do not adhere to those tolerances. 100 microns maybe.
I must have confused the cybertruck with one of my rocket engines.
Here’s 300
machinists“architects and engineers” telling me off https://www.reddit.com/r/Machinists/comments/15zkpxg/musk_email_to_tesla_today/these comments are pretty fun
Lol at comparing an entire assembled truck to a soda can. Elon is going to get replaced as the richest person in the world by the guy who resells scrap metal from Tesla factories.
Any fanboi that can read this and still defend Musk’s genius deserves to be shot.
Modern day Howard Hughes, it’s not a question of if he’s going to collect his own urine, but when he’s going to start selling it as mineral water.
