Wheezer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 12:02 pm
Failure is good, it leads to better solutions.
Cheers!
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Very true! If you start reading back at the beginning of tpe repair Circa 2018 you'll see a lot of improvements and changes. Both successes and failures have led to what we would consider "state-of-the-art" right now. And it's evolving exponentially.
My whole career wasn't in an advanced research group for one of the Detroit three automakers. We had to find things that would work to meet emissions, fuel economy, crash standards, weight reduction, aerodynamic and so many other things that are commonplace today. But when trying to do it 10 years prior they looked impossible.
One of my Engineers worked nearly a year on a project. He had written a final report and came to my desk to review it. I had monitored his work so I knew what was going on. He sat there with a long face describing how the project failed. And no matter how he tried he couldn't get it to work.
I smiled and told them that only three or four out of the 10 projects we're working on with be successful. So he showed us what not to do, which was value added in itself.
I took his data into a circle around the point 25 seconds into the vehicle emissions test. Where the feedback oxygen sensor suddenly took a step from high to low, the computer corrected and the sensor started switching up and down like normal. What he didn't know was I was working with one of the Catalyst vendors and this inflection point was a critical point of a new understanding of how the Catalitic converters worked. And at revolutionized what we did.
Maybe his primary task failed, but he found something that I was looking for. And that was a huge success. He stood up with his shoulders proud, and realized successes can be found in failures. I had to coach my whole advanced development team not to fear failures. And to come to me early when they thought they were failing and we would restructure their projects.
The TDF community sharing their experiences like this has so much value for the group as a whole.
I can't wait to stick a hot probe in my dolls nose!
I'm not sure about doing something up to the eyes. The eyes in my dolls have cotton packing behind them. Getting that moist, simulating tears, would not be a good thing. Unless you plan to pull the eyes out, dry the socket and replace the cotton backing each time
Kudos to the OP, nox2doll, for his attempt, and Wheezer for giving us a process to follow.
