I had a partial case head separation using a 1.8oz buffer

[lazyengineer]

I had a manager that once told me that "arguing with an engineer is like wrestling in the mud with a pig - the engineer ends up happy and you just end up dirty."

(They say this about lawyers too.)

For the record I'm a chemical engineer with my BS from UC Berkeley. Graduated in the 90s.

Same. One thing they taught us early in Engineering is #1 goal is for the bridge to not fall down. #2 is under budget/ better mileage aspects / pleasant aesthetics. "Nobody remembers the bridge that came in under budget. Everybody remembers the one that falls down".

At present, I see one parts vendor for my bridge involved in 3 of the last 3 catastrophic failures in my industry with 3 different agencies with 3 different projects, with that being the part that failed every time. And with a seemingly higher frequency of a warning sign deformation behavior. That's a huge red-alert, just so you know. And then I see a difference in construction philosophy that happens to show up at the location of the failures. The other vendors in the same usage aren't failing and aren't so readily showing this strange deformation warning sign? Yea, that vendor is gone.