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This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Mythical Specifications<\/a><\/div>

Engineering sometimes calls for the use of the specification called unattainium<\/a>.\u00a0 In other words, at times there is just no easy way to find the balance between design requirements and reality.\u00a0 Other times, someone isn’t knowledgeable enough to make certain specifications, so they come up with specs that may sound right, but aren’t real.\u00a0 Anyone ever run into a set of parts that were designed with all the mating features being line-to-line?\u00a0 How many of us have searched high and low for a “black alodine” finish?\u00a0 Another mythical metal finish is “clear hard anodize”.\u00a0 I’m going to cover some of these points in future articles.\u00a0 For now, I’d like to see other misspecifications that people have experienced in the engineering field.\u00a0 Please comment about what you’ve seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Engineering sometimes calls for the use of the specification called unattainium.\u00a0 In other words, at times there is just no easy way to find the balance between design requirements and reality.\u00a0 Other times, someone isn’t knowledgeable enough to make certain specifications, so they come up with specs that may sound right, but aren’t real.\u00a0 Anyone … Continue reading “Mythical creations”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[284],"tags":[1204],"series":[1593],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-unattainium","series-mythical-specifications"],"yoast_head":"\nMythical creations - 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