The "Ask Nathan a Question" Thread

Casinostocks said:
Nathan, in your unveiling post regarding the newly reformulated D3V steel (as you had intimated, not just the heat treat but also the "recipe" to the alloy) can you please elaborate a bit more as to what those 3 samples are in the posted photograph? Also, if possible, can you please consider moving that post to the sticky thread: Announcements, things you might want to know. Thank you.
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Where was Nathan's post? I missed it somehow.
 
fielder said:
Where was Nathan's post? I missed it somehow.
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Nathan the Machinist

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And some of you may know, I've been making some pretty good knives for a long time now.

And the knives I make now are the best knives I've ever made.

We started out making tweaked D2 that initially caused a lot of arguments and drama here amongst other makers but it eventually set the industry standard.

And we started making tweaked 3V. At a certain point, when our resources allowed us to, we finalized and formalized the best tweak that was fully optimized and, to differentiate it from previous tweaks, we called it Delta 3V, "Delta" indicating change. It is indicated as 3V inside of a...
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Casinostocks said:
Nathan, in your unveiling post regarding the newly reformulated D3V steel (as you had intimated, not just the heat treat but also the "recipe" to the alloy) can you please elaborate a bit more as to what those 3 samples are in the posted photograph? Also, if possible, can you please consider moving that post to the sticky thread: Announcements, things you might want to know. Thank you.
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You raise a good question and it's something that I have often wondered myself. What is the difference between a bolt and a screw? Many people think, incorrectly, that it is a matter of size. It is not.

Screws are designed to be driven from their head whereas bolts are tightened with a nut. You can tell the difference because a screw will have a raised circular pad under its head to facilitate rotation whereas a bolt will be flat.

So, you might think that I am cutting a 1/4"-20 hexhead cap screw, but if you look, it is flat under the head and that is, in fact, a bolt.

Now, lag bolts are another question. They are in fact bolts (no circular pad), but they are driven from their head. So there are exceptions.

This almost begs the question, are the head bolts holding the head down to your engine block really bolts? I'll wager they're actually screws.
 
I was actually asking about the 3 samples, e.g, the blades vs the victims used for testing but you being a genius egghead, you go at a tangent bro, you go bro! Are the 3 sample blades all reformulated D3Vs or a mix of standard D3V & reformulated ones? different DPS edges? You know, normal stuff that normal people with IQ of 120ish think of :P
 
Casinostocks said:
I was actually asking about the 3 samples, e.g, the blades vs the victims used for testing but you being a genius egghead, you go at a tangent bro, you go bro! Are the 3 sample blades all reformulated D3Vs or a mix of standard D3V & reformulated ones? different DPS edges? You know, normal stuff that normal people with IQ of 120ish think of :P
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The difference between Delta 3 phase and Wye 3 phase power is the existence of a neutral. Delta has no neutral and you might have two legs that are 120 volts to ground and 240 volts to each other and a third leg (the wild leg) that is 208 volts to ground but each one of these three legs will be 240 volts to each other. This is due to phase rotation angle. Whereas Wye 3 phase has a center neutral that is forced to ground so each leg might be 120 volts to ground but, having 120° phase angle with one another, they will be 208 volts line to line.
 
ANAQ: What subject stimulates your brain cells and synapses to kick start the neurons in your brain to act up to speak gibberish through your fingers?

A: Electricity

#stillnotnathan

Next time, just say that I don't wanna tell you, 'cause Mat, yer still a pissant 🤭
 
Casinostocks said:
ANAQ: What subject stimulates your brain cells and synapses to kick start the neurons in your brain to act up to speak gibberish through your fingers?

A: Electricity

#stillnotnathan

Next time, just say that I don't wanna tell you, 'cause Mat, yer still a pissant 🤭
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If you have large inductive loads and are dealing with reactive power with power factor correction capacitors, but you leave those capacitors connected while your inductive loads are off, it is actually possible to pay for some of your neighbors electricity bill.
 
Lorien said:
would you please compare and contrast bolts vs volts?
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Well, when you're talking about differentiation. Or integration. You're really talking about calculus. Which is used to measure the area under a curve which is critical for accurately measuring AC voltage.

Your 120 volt line is actually 170 volts, and a cheap meter will simply apply a corrective factor whereas a good meter will give you a true root mean square measurement.

This is important for accuracy because the cheap meter is only accurate if you have a perfect sine wave

Lol

When do you ever have a perfect sine wave, am I right?



I scoped my wild leg the other day

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Good lord man



So anyway, Sir Isaac Newton invented differential calculus so he could calculate orbital periods more accurately. Calculating the area under a circle is pretty straightforward but once it's an ellipse, they used to have to break it into smaller and smaller triangles and it would approach an asymptote. This was very time consuming and inaccurate so he invented calculus.

But it's not the calculus that we use. It was his own calculus. Because it never crossed his mind to tell anybody about it so somebody else also invented it and that's the calculus that you and I use.

That is some high quality autism right there.
 
Lorien said:
I think you might you calculus more often than I do...painting cave walls doesn't require much math lol
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Oh I don't do any calculus. I have computers for that.

I remember taking calculus in school. I asked my dad, "when the hell is anybody ever going to use this".

He told me he uses it everyday. 😠
 
JJ_Colt45 said:
Take solace in the fact that your body can process acohol at a substantially higher rate (which I'm sure they have a mathematical equation for) that theirs can't ... so you sir may say "neener neener".
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I personally have seen Richard tore up

The opposite cannot be said

Yet
 
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