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166 THE DISTRIBUTOR’S LINK JO MORRIS FTI NEW CLASS: FASTENER FUNDAMENTALS – THE NUTS AND BOLTS FOR FASTENER PROFESSIONALS from page 96 Learn more about Fastener Fundamentals, Fastener Specifications & Terminology, and Understanding the Bolted Joint at www.fastenertraining.org. Discounts are provided to fastener association and IFI members. Sign up for our newsletters at https://bit.ly/ FTInewsletter and see what’s coming in 2024: classes on Hydrogen Embrittlement, Structural Bolting, Tightening Strategies, Failure Investigation, Fastener Testing, Manufacturing, Thread Inspection, Fastener Standards, Bolted Joint Design, CAD Fastener Drawings, and Compliance Issues. The Fastener Training Institute is a nonprofit organization that provides beginning and advanced training on fastener products, standards, and specifications. Its core purpose is to enhance fastener use, reliability and safety. Our mission is to make industry professionals more knowledgeable about the fastening products they buy, sell, specify or use. For more information about Fastener Training Institute email info@FastenerTraining.org, call 562.473.5373 or visit us online at www.FastenerTraining.org. JO MORRIS | FASTENER TRAINING INSTITUTE
THE DISTRIBUTOR’S LINK 167 ERIC DUDAS UNTHREADED: A PREDOMINANTLY FASTENER-RELATED LESSON from page 76 Once back in the field, we went to work drilling, sawing, wrenching, and occasionally untangling torn shirt sleeves from the jagged chicken wire edges. We made speedy progress and soon had the first wheel brace and axle constructed and in place. It almost seemed too easy. We worked as a team on that first one. I took guidance from Carm as he gently offered suggestions about where to put the holes for the main support bolts, which might actually have been screws. But I didn’t want to slow down progress by asking him to explain exactly which one we were using for the same reason I almost named the Fastener Training Minute the Fastener Training Hour. I just wanted to get the project done and start raising birds. One down, one to go. I should clarify that the comment above refers to Carmen’s monthly segment on the Fully Threaded Radio podcast (www.fullythreaded.com). Regular listeners know that every episode is graced with a tidbit of his unsurpassed fastener wisdom in the form of a deep technical lesson on any one of a variety of fastening topics. The lessons are practical, insightful and inspired by real world experience. The Fastener Training Minute segment is always a highlight of the podcast. You could say that Carm helped us build our podcast much as he helped me build my chicken tractor that day. That is to say, on the fly and with no real set plan, together we devised a way to get a fastener-related job done while achieving a much larger benefit than the one we’d initially imagined. The finished product gets the job done, although it’s just a little out of whack. Fully Threaded Radio was first intended simply to promote the FCH Sourcing Network (www.fastenersclearinghouse.com). Over time, it became something much more. What that is exactly, I leave for listeners to say, but anyone who listens would have to agree that the podcast provides a wide range of content to the fastener industry. We’re also aware that being “predominantly fastenerrelated”, we have a small amount of latitude to explore topics that aren’t strictly about fasteners or the industry. Often, we’re told that’s where the best parts of the podcast happen. And when we head off the tracks for a little while, we always return to the thread. So it only gets a little off kilter that way. That’s what being “predominantly fastener-related” is all about. Back to chicken tractor story, by the time we attached the second wheel assembly it was nearly dark and we worked quickly, without too much discussion. Carm had to catch a plane for Pittsburgh, so we grabbed a quick dinner and I dropped him at the airport. The next day, I slipped the wheels onto the pen and in the light of day I could see the second wheel assembly was off by about 15 degrees. I had assumed Carm was guiding me again, and he’d assumed I was measuring carefully after doing the first one together. We were both working without a plan, in the dark, in that predominantly fastener-related kind of way. The pen still didn’t look like a tractor, but it had wheels. It would still work, just a little off kilter. Turns out, that’s just fine. ERIC DUDAS
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