User talk:Wizard191

Reference for mold constant

The text I acquired the equation from is in a series of PDF's that do not state their creators, publish date or anything else about their creation. Sorry. I too spent a couple hours trying to find the blasted thing online but to no avail so I gave up trying to find it online and pulled up the PDF so that I could put it up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.151.67.160 (talk) 18:05, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Alright...thanks for the equation! Wizard191 (talk) 18:28, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Expand

Template:Expand has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. 134.253.26.6 (talk) 23:02, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!!!

I would like to take this chance to thank you for your informative guides :)

Clarajohnson (talk) 20:40, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Don't revert red links

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

Moving to the article talk page, where this conversation should be happening. Wizard191 (talk) 14:48, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

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Red links are good for the wiki. Leave it in. Maury Markowitz (talk) 02:16, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

I have no problem with red links in general, but I do for hatnotes. If you are working on an article, just add the link once the article exists. That seems pretty easy to me, so I don't get why this is a big deal. Wizard191 (talk) 14:46, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

3RR

Exactly, it's not such a big deal, so why did you risk me blocking you for the 3RR you just committed? Maury Markowitz (talk) 18:14, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

You might want to read WP:3RR, because I didn't commit it. Wizard191 (talk) 19:48, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

flow drilling > friction drilling

I agree to your comments on Flow drilling. So I moved (copy-paste) the whole page to 'friction drilling', replaced every word 'flow drill' by 'friction drill' and then I replaced the original 'flow drilling' page by a 'redirect' to the new lemma. But now I see that that move is just reverted. Did I do something wrong? I just wanted to remove the regd. trade mark term as you suggested, but I seem to have done it the wrong way. ? In my talk, I am referred to the sandbox, but (having done more than 200 modifications in the Dutch Wikipedia) I think I have grown too old now for the sand box. --Erik Wannee (talk) 17:55, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

You didn't do anything terribly wrong, but when a page needs to move, it must be done the right way (at WP:Requested moves) not via copy and pasting. This is because of licensing issues that must retain the edit history. I already listed it at WP:Requested moves, so the ball is rolling in the right direction now. Wizard191 (talk) 19:56, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your kind advice. I learned a lot. (But I think I can better sometimes make a mistake than doing nothing at all.) I will keep my hands off this item now for a while and see the ball rolling. --Erik Wannee (talk) 21:35, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

The move was completed yesterday, and I just went through and cleaned it up a little. Feel free to work on it now, if you have anything more to add. Wizard191 (talk) 21:36, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Casting (metalworking)/Terminology

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Cathodic Protection

Hi, I realise I was a bit premature in removing the references tag from the Cathodic protection article, which you reverted the other day. I've since revised the article and added more references and I'm planning to remove the tag again. There are a still a few unreferenced sections, but nothing too controversial that's likely to be challenged, I think. However, I am still researching sources and will add more as I find them. In the meantime, before I remove the tag again, I'd be grateful for your opinion, if you have time. Apau98 (talk) 09:26, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, its looking good. I'd be OK with removing it now. Wizard191 (talk) 18:45, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Drill

Hi, I noticed you reverted my changes when I removed the following text from a comment:

"IF YOU CAME HERE EITHER TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST PEOPLE WITH DOWN SYNDROME OR TO PATRONIZE OR SEQUESTER THEM, SIMPLY CLICK "CANCEL" ON YOUR EDIT TOOLBAR."

I felt there were a number of issues, in particular it did not actually provide much information to editors about what the problem was. I have replaced it with the following:

"Current consensus is that the previous image should not be removed. Please do not remove without discussing this on the talk page"

This comment indicates what the isue is and will be more helpful to editors. If you are unhappy with this comment, please discuss before reverting as this will be more constructive than simply going through the whole edit/revert/edit/revert loop. Thx 87.114.2.26 (talk) 15:03, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

That's fine with me; just as long as there's a notice there informing editors that there is consensus to leave the image alone. Wizard191 (talk) 15:05, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Cool, looks like that's resolved. I'll keep an eye on the article for a while to see if any other editor has an issue with the rephrase 87.114.2.26 (talk) 15:29, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Advertising

Wizard191,

There is incomplete information on Biodegradable Plastic as well as BioPlastics. 

Most of the information is advertising BPI( A 3rd party Certification entity, not even a testing lab, they charge $4500 for the certification and require a membership fee) PLA, PHA etc..these are resins which comply with BPI's standards. You can also convert Petroleum plastics into biodegradable plastics as seen on websites across the internet. Please review the intended links so you are aware of the changes.

Please take into consideration if you are going to allow them to have their advertising, the flip side should allow for information to be supplied to the public as well.

Information is key and I do believe the public should be entitled to both sides rather then a biased opinion.

Thank You, Callsign — Preceding unsigned comment added by Callsign (talk • contribs) 20:36, 5 January 2011 (UTC) Callsign (talk) 20:40, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Feel free to remove the other advert. in the article; however, its existence doesn't give you (nor anyone else) good reason to add more advertising. Wizard191 (talk) 21:23, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Not a problem will do, My next question is why did you delete the EPA's information on methane capturing? There is no reference to "MOST" landfills let off methane gas and aren't captured. I am simply stating this information as incorrect. I sit on Methane to Markets ran by the EPA, after 1999 and the clean air act all landfills that take over 20 MT of garbage must be schedule D landfills. Please don't delete the information on Methane to Markets as this is ran by the EPA and I would site them as a source of knowledge since they regulate landfills.Callsign (talk) 23:31, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Methane to Markets no longer exists to http://www.globalmethane.org/ , which does say that's its a global entity (and it looks so according to the big map on the home page). As such, I'm sure the EPA doesn't run it. Therefore its no different than BPI, which I saw you recently deleted. Wizard191 (talk) 02:03, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Diamond Turning

Hello,

Thanks for correcting the error I made on the citation about electroless nickel and plated aluminum. It was actually just my own expansion to broaden the material list so that it contains more accurate descriptions, but I have to make sure it's cited (or not). I'll change it at some point in the future to include additional materials from other sources.

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by David Casale (talk • contribs) 17:34, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

OK, sounds good. Wizard191 (talk) 19:33, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Ductile iron pipe#Europe

User:Peter Horn/Sandbox#Ductile iron pipe#Europe & Ductile iron pipe#Europe. That was precisely what I wanted and needed, we are in the {{clear}} now. As you can see I have implemented this in the article. Thanks a million. Peter Horn User talk 02:41, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Glad to be of service. Wizard191 (talk) 16:03, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Robert Mushet

I know you've written about Mushet and Mushet Steel onWikipedia in the past, so I thougt you might be interested to know that I've begun an article on Darkhill Ironworks, where he worked. Rgds Obscurasky (talk) 12:17, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice, however, that's getting quite outside my realm of expertise. Keep up the good work nonetheless! Wizard191 (talk) 14:18, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Caption links

I noticed that you removed links from a caption in brass, citing overlinking. While I appreciate the concern about a sea of blue and such, I think it's important to have links from captions as one's attention is often independently drawn to images, and linking below them seems a natural, important, and non-redundant utility in learning. Would you offer other thoughts, or perhaps point to relevant guidelines? ENeville (talk) 05:02, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

The relevant guideline is WP:OVERLINK; if you still strongly feel that the links should stand after reading the guideline, then revert me. Wizard191 (talk) 14:16, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Linchpin

I guess I don't understand if the additional use of the word belongs in the Wiktionary why the original word is in the Wikipedia? It was a valid reference to the use of this word for a thing that is NOT a thing. Pabobfin (talk) 16:00, 14 February 2011 (UTC) regards

Please review WP:NOTDICT. If you think the topic still doesn't violated WP:NOTDICT and it is notable enough for Wikipedia, then the topic deserves it's own article; perhaps linchpin (politics)? Wizard191 (talk) 22:04, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Thermal conductivity

I'm not going to get into an edit war over it, but I'm interested to know why you say that Thermal conductivity uses American English? Looking back over the history of the article it seems to have been using metres rather than meters (apart from one relatively recent introduction of meters when there were already a number of instances of metres). The only sign I can see of long-standing Americanese is a sulfur, but there is also an aluminium. - David Biddulph (talk) 19:48, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

The second edit to the article includes the American spelling of "meter"; see http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Thermal_conductivity&diff=154401&oldid=154397. Wizard191 (talk) 19:55, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Steel alloys

As it seems, you are good at answering questions about Chemistry. Well, you see, i am struggling on the topic of steel alloys and i would love some help? Reply if you can please? :D Kimberly K. =) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.196.18.100 (talk) 18:45, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Sure, where or what's the question? Wizard191 (talk) 14:13, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Loctite entry status

Hi,

Where do we stand on the flag of the Loctite entry for allegedly sounding like an advertisement? Your last post in the talk page said you would listen to other thoughts on the matter. This was back in November, and only one has been posted since - last month (just noticed this myself), agreeing that the piece meets Wikipedia's objectivity standards. I understand one more opinion does not constitute overwhelming evidence, but I would like to have this resolved one way or another soon. Perhaps asking for a third opinion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.160.244.240 (talk) 04:35, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Per the third opinion I'll remove the tag. Wizard191 (talk) 14:43, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi,

Loctite is very commonly used and referred to among technicians and engineers. The page seems OK to me, but I've heard that my eyes don't see commercialism as well as some. Perhaps I'm exposed to so much that I automatically disregard large portions of it.

Anyhow, it's fine with me if you want the Loctite page revsied, but I think that it would be good to at least retain some shred of the reference. As a new professor of engineering, after having been in industry for 14 years, I often send my students to Wikipedia to begin to get a handle on anything that is unfamiliar to them. It is a wonderful starting point for a person who has no idea of the universe of things awaiting them in a topic area! Last week, for example, I noticed that nearly all of the presentations in my Design class started with Wikipedia and followed the paths laid down here to other references that they might otherwise never have found.

Thank you!

Crystal

CHeshmat (talk) 17:53, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		Hi, I hope you don't mind -- I'm trying out this new option to give people stars and kittens. The one labled "Defender of the Wiki" seemed best for your work that I've read so far. Thanks! CHeshmat (talk) 18:23, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar! Although I don't know how deserving I am right now, because I've been pretty inactive over the last few weeks. Wizard191 (talk) 13:57, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Links to Catalogs

Hey Wiz, before we continue with the deletion/addition game, I thought I'd chat with you a little. In the Wiki guidelines on links to avoid there is no prohibition of catalogs per se, even though catalogs are explicitly commercial. As long as the links provide an additional resource containing information useful to someone seeking more information on a topic, they have merit. The links I provided in the roller screw article go into a level of detail and specificity on the topic that the article does not. Thus the links have merit. If you disagree, then perhaps we should open the discussion up in a broader forum. I await your response. In the meantime, I'll leave the article as it stands after your last deletion. Cheers, Catsquisher (talk) 00:43, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for the long delay, but I don't have much time for Wikipedia these days. Please outline what in the catalogs you feel is important to the article, on the article talk page, so that we can discuss this more. Thanks. Wizard191 (talk) 16:47, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

No prob on the delay; we're all busy. The catalogs I linked to have images, details and specific information including sizes, configurations, loading (e.g. dynamic and static), lubrication, mounting, efficiency, applications, lifetime, mechanical equations (e.g. speed, buckling and deflection), etc. The catalogs happen to be some of the most informative and readily available resources on the subject. As I stated previously, I believe they are likely useful to many seeking more information than the article provides. But there's no need for me to tell you. When you have a moment why don't you take a look? Per your request I'm also posting a related comment on the article's talk page presently. Cheers, Catsquisher (talk) 21:00, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Jigsaw

Lol, thanks for poking me. No, ofc it's not a hoax, I meant to delete Jigsaw Squirting and mistakenly deleted that page instead, thought I had restored it but apparently I hadn't. Thanks so much for poking me :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 21:15, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Ahh, OK, that makes sense. Wizard191 (talk) 13:13, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Please review

There is an article about a strap or tape: Polyester coord-bandage Tape. I can't make any sense of it. This is an area you have background in. Am I missing something or should this wierd article just be deleted? thanks. Rlsheehan (talk) 22:48, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

I think it ought to be deleted, because I can't even figure out what its trying to talk about. I think it's supposed to be about strap, but it keeps talking about tape, so I'm not sure. Wizard191 (talk) 16:42, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Speedily deleted as a hoax. Feezo (Talk) 22:21, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Wizard191 (talk) 22:27, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Thank you Rlsheehan (talk) 01:10, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Lessons from working on Kitchen cabinet

When I tried doing a revamp of kitchen cabinet, I found there were hardly any good references, mostly a lot of links to advertising, cabinet makers, and such. And my sense is the same kind of thing will happen to Drill -- it's such a basic thing that any kind of reference search will push away from the basics of this tool -- that is there may be articles on new types of drills, innovative uses of drills, that sort of thing -- but what I'm saying is that will push away from the essence of the tool itself. Do you see what I mean? But perhaps you are right and there is good secondary search information; still that the tag has been there for two years, and not much has been added -- there might be a reason for that in the sense that there isn't a lot of published material about this. See, the article right now is pretty good as it is. Tell u what -- why not try to do a secondary search and see what you get?--Tomwsulcer (talk) 14:42, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Funny you say that. I had a very similar discussion at Talk:File_(tool)#References_or_sources. If you must see that good secondary references exist for common topics, I'll give you a list. Wizard191 (talk) 16:24, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Oh. I think you're going to win this argument, unfortunately for my ego. Wondering how you search to only get Google Books to come up. I'll try to get to this when I get time. I'm also thinking that the electricians right-angle drill should be in the article; I have one; good for drilling in tight spaces. Perhaps I'll take a picture.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 17:39, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Here are some refs: Wizard191 (talk) 19:13, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

• http://books.google.com/books?id=ZcxKAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP1
• http://books.google.com/books?id=kAEAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA117
• http://books.google.com/books?id=FqO1vhKji6YC&pg=PA46
• http://books.google.com/books?id=TtcDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA147

Cool. Will paste to talk page of Drill and add stuff at a later time. Thanks!--Tomwsulcer (talk) 00:49, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

actuator

I will appreciate your help, when controlling illumination of a room is the actuator a mechanical device?...may be!...i think is a light source, the world is not only mechanics!...regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ponchobonjo (talk • contribs) 04:54, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Huh? What do you mean by "when controlling illumination of a room"? And what is this with respect to? Wizard191 (talk) 14:14, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

what i mean mr wizard is simply we need to define clearly and widely, an actuator execute an act, an action and the actuations are not limited to mechanical.......does a heater actuates on a thermal process?....does a light source actuate on illumintaion?....i think your deletion on my contribution is not proper.

best regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ponchobonjo (talk • contribs) 04:57, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Ah, so you are referring to this contribution? I believe you are referring to a different definition of actuation, see the wiktionary article wikt:actuator. See Wikipedia has different articles for each topic, so if a word has two meanings then those two meanings will have different articles (if both are notable). In this case the article is about the mechanical aspect of "actuation", whereas you are referring to a much broader definition that doesn't fit the article. For the Wikipedia policy about these concepts see WP:NOT. Wizard191 (talk) 19:04, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Load cell

Dear Sir / Madam,

We added an external link to the wiki load cell. The link is http://www.zemic.nl/load-cell-trouble-shooting.html is 100% informational.

We are aware of the nofollow tags so this is not the reason of adding it. We only want to give users of loadcells a tool to check there loadcell by doing a few easy tests.

Please answer me why you deleted this link.

Kind regards,

Maarten Kleemans Zemic Europe —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.64.181.42 (talk) 14:58, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Hope no one minds me tossing in my two cents here:

Maarten, you might want to review Wikipedia's Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest essay. Since you work for Zemic Europe, you have a conflict of interest regarding this link and other Zemic-related topics. This itself isn't a bad thing. However, other editors should decide whether to include the link.

If you think other editors would disagree with Wizard191's removal, a better place to discuss it is the article's talk page. In that discussion, Wikipedia's policy on external links might come up. It can be found here. (I'd be leaning toward not including the link myself. Wikipedia isn't intended to be a source for how-to information.) Please be aware that Wikipedia has few external links. BitterGrey (talk) 16:10, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Maarten, Bittergrey's response cover's my points exactly. So if you feel strongly that the link ought to be included, please comment on the article's talk page. Wizard191 (talk) 16:39, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Material for shear form roller !!!

Dear sir,

My name is Pc Lee. If found that your analysis about spinning is really interesting. I would like to try it out in our production. Until now, I still face a big problem, it is regarding the type of material for the roller of the shear forming. Could you pls tell me which kind of material will be more useful or last longer?

Please reply.

Thank you.

Best regards, P.C.LEE camsbpcl@hotmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.140.231.42 (talk) 02:06, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi PC Lee, honestly I haven't written much for the metal spinning article, and I don't work with any of the tooling for it in my profession, so I can't answer that question. You might try asking at the reference desk. Wizard191 (talk) 13:33, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Invitation to take part in a pilot study

I am a Wikipedian, who is studying the phenomenon on Wikipedia. I need your help to conduct my research on about understanding "Motivation of Wikipedia contributors." I would like to invite you to a short survey. Please give me your valuable time, which estimates only ‘’’5 minutes’’’ cooldenny (talk) 15:52, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Pentalobe screws

I'm unsure what to say. The specifications for Tamper-resistant Torx Plus screws are available only to authorized OEMs, as are the drivers. I know for a fact that Apple refers to the drivers of these batteries as "Torx Plus Tamper 6", but I am unable to provide an externally accessible link to Apple's internal reference. The only thing I could say to convince you is that Apple does not hold the patent for pentalobular screw drives, Acument does, and this is verifiable online, and that Apple is an authorized licensee of Acument products. Hope that helps clearing things up, that article is frustratingly inaccurate, just thought I could help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.203.192.122 (talk) 19:20, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

The article doesn't say that Apple holds the patent; it just states that Apple is implementing it. Unfortunately, it usually is very hard to find references for things like this, however here at Wikipedia we can only accept verifiable information; see WP:V. Wizard191 (talk) 19:33, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Torx Plus, and tamper-resistant Torx Plus, are widely used by Apple, but these aren't the Pentalobe security screws that are used in ones and twos per device. Their geometry is quite different - Pentalobe is a classic security screw, it's designed to fail and round-off if abused with an ad hoc tool. I don't know about Pentalobe, but the specifications for the Torx series are quite easily available (and licensed) - Acument do after all have a vested interest in examples of their tech being competent, accurate and well-fitting examples! This is especially true for Torx Plus, compared to Torx. A poorly fitting Torx is weak and sloppy, but a Torx Plus simply won't fit. Unless Apple are themselves making their own screws & tools though, I'd be surprised if they had a Torx licence from Acument.

If you're going to throw rocks at List of screw drives, it would be more helpful if you'd be more specific. Even better, expand Torx and clear up the whole Torx / Torx Plus issue. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:38, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

As an Apple Technician, I can tell you that whoever wrote the article for Pentalobe screws didn't verify if the screws inside the MacBook Pros, iPhone 4s and MacBook Air were actually the Pentalobe screws to which you are referring, because they aren't. They are, Torx Plus Tamper Resistant Size 5 and 6, and they fit the elliptical notches that the six-branch Torx Plus design use and are fairly different from the drawing that is shown on the Pentalobe screw listing. I personally have not seen another pentalobular designed screw but I can tell you that the specific screws that are referred to in the article are not classic pentalobular security screw.

The specifications for Torx, Torx Plus and Torx Tamper Resistant are easily available, although the Torx Tamper resistant version has been available since Acument (or Textron, back then) didn't renew the patent for the Torx/Torx Tamper Resistant screws, which is also part of the reason why they developped the tighter-fitting Torx Plus screws. However, they did not disclose the specifics of the Torx Plus Tamper Resistant design, of which only a few licensees exist, among the likes of Unisteel and Wiha. Licensees hold the right to build the screws and tools but they'll only sell them to authorized OEMs, and Apple is one of those, sorry about the confusion on my part.

I'd also like to apologize because I did not mean to throw rocks at the whole List of screw drives article, which is often very useful in my line of work, only specifically at thePentalobular screw listing. I suppose an additional reference to the pentalobular design of the Torx Plus Tamper Resistant proof would be more appropriate in this case, but the reference to the screws Apple uses should be removed from the classic pentalobular design and put in that category. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.203.192.122 (talk) 19:40, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

As an Apple technician, I guess we can't expect you to count up to five and six but don't worry, there will be an app for that.

Apples are held together with six-lobed Torx and Torx Plus screws. Computers have used these widely since Compaq adopted them back in the '80s. Now even IBM are using them. Unusually, Apple have recently started using the Pentalobe (that's five lobes, not six) as a one-off security feature on a few of their recent models. AFAIK, these are all on portables, for the express purpose of stopping people replacing Li-ion batteries for themselves. No desktops (AFAIK) are using them. The rest of the laptop / iPhone is still held together with six-lobed Torx Plus.

I have no idea if Apple also use / have ever used the five-lobed Torx Plus tamper-resistant (five lobes, centre pin, elliptical generator, same as the Torx Plus) but wouldn't be at all surprised. If you compare it to the new Pentalobe, there's no centre pin and it has sharp arrises (edges) in the screwhead rather than the spline-like head of the Torx Plus. Andy Dingley (talk) 20:01, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

http://www.acument.com/northamerica/torxplus_trds.asp , http://apple-parts.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=2950 , http://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/339/Where+can+I+find+a+star-point+screwdriver , http://www.ifixit.com/Tools/Torx-Plus-5-Point-T6--IP6-MacBook-Pro-Battery-Removal-Tool/IF145-070 , 'Nuff said. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.203.192.122 (talk) 20:08, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

OK, so they're (as we all expected) using Torx Plus, they're using five-lobe tamper resistant Torx Plus, and a bunch of unreliable websites are making the usual wittering noises.

So if ifixit is (Bob forbid) considered to be reliable for this purpose, then take a look: here

20:28, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Question

Hi Wizard191,

I think I have all of the basic information in the heat treating article now. It may still need some word-smithing or tweeking, but I'll have to give my eyes a break from it for a week or two. It should now be easy enough to explain the specialized techniques for most alloys with a single paragraph each, much like is done on the carbon steel page.

My question is about transferring the content from that page over to heat treating. I'm not too familiar with anything beyond a simple copy/cut/paste method. Would this be a good way to do it, or is there some other way, (perhaps to preserve the history)? Zaereth (talk) 22:08, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Industrial Robot reverted edit by Furkanbuet06

Hi, Thanks for reverting that edit. It was a huge addition, badly organised (rambling almost) most of which did not belong in Industrial robot, all of which should have been discussed on the talk page etc etc as you surely know. Yet the guy did a lot of work and clearly knows a fair bit. It's a shame it wasn't suitable. I saw the same text on his talk page. I've never seen anything like it before. How did you discern the difference between a valid contribution and the knowledgable rambling? What rules were applied to remove it? (I totally agree with its removal - I just want to understand the system better). Robotics1 (talk) 22:29, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Alternative to nautilus cam

I see your point about the name recognition, but one thing that does stand out as unique (even if others have done it) is the combination of cams with a pulley system. Passing a chain over a rotating cam seems to alter the amount of force it's used. I would like to find data about this to link from the page on pulleys. I could have sworn I read a page on this on wikipedia but can't seem to find it. I remember there were illustrations of it being 2:1, 1:1 and 1:2 and the like at different angles. DB (talk) 01:11, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Meh, the relative change in contact location is pretty much negligible with the chain, therefore it's essentially like using a fixed cam follower. Now if the pivot point of the pulley were changing in relation to the cam as it rotates, now we are talking about a unique system. BTW, I design custom cams/camshafts/profiles regularly, so I've seen/designed some pretty crazy stuff. Wizard191 (talk) 01:20, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Reverted edits

(cur | prev) 19:55, 13 January 2010 Wizard191 (talk | contribs) m (23,027 bytes) (Reverted 2 edits by Canadiansteve identified as vandalism to last revision by 62.154.254.182. using TW) (undo)

Robotics Design Inc. manufactures industrial robots. How can this be considered as vandilism?

Dude, that edit is over a year old. Have you even noticed that that section is no longer in the article? Wizard191 (talk) 19:06, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Page change

Mr. Wizard, Kindly advise why you removed the links that I posted on the Drilling page of Wikipedia. I have seen there is little information on this topic, and even the information posted was vague and incorrect. I am trying to add to the knowledge and accuracy of Wikipedia, which I believe is many people's go-to source for information, definitions, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by CaptainAmerca (talk • contribs) 19:52, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Because it's a commercial link, which are not welcome at Wikipedia. Why don't you use a more reliable source like a book? Wizard191 (talk) 15:47, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Cryogenic Deflashing

It's kind of hard to reference the advantages of cryogenic deflashing from an encyclopedia when their is no encyclopedia article on them other than Wikipedia. What do you suggest? Unfortunately, it seems that this particular page will lack inline citations for a very long time. I was particular surprised that you deleted the inline citation that references a page that shows the process step by step. Nowhere else on the web is that info available.

Ryan Rt cine (talk) 22:07, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Bullshit, you are just pushing your own website/services. This search literally took 10 seconds: http://books.google.com/books?id=6usaXXV0W68C&lpg=PA549&dq=CRYOGENIC%20DEFLASHING&pg=PA549#v=onepage&q=CRYOGENIC%20DEFLASHING&f=false , http://books.google.com/books?id=gdq6qajigqoC&lpg=PA196&dq=CRYOGENIC%20DEFLASHING&pg=PA196#v=onepage&q=CRYOGENIC%20DEFLASHING&f=false , http://books.google.com/books?id=93SPB4v1Lk8C&lpg=PA76&dq=CRYOGENIC%20DEFLASHING&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q=CRYOGENIC%20DEFLASHING&f=false , http://books.google.com/books?id=rvf6uryFwukC&pg=PA348&dq=CRYOGENIC+DEFLASHING&hl=en&ei=vwzLTfTCDIKutweJm-3wBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CGoQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=CRYOGENIC%20DEFLASHING&f=false . Please stop pushing your wares here. Wizard191 (talk) 22:26, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

FYI - If you processed the parts at -320F they would be destroyed as this is lower than the glass transition point of all the materials. Almost every article explained there shows that temperature.

Stop this harassments of my reference in the galling article

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

Why do you always give me a hard time???? It´s not fun!!

You have you deleted a reference to my master thesis report from Karlstad university about the galling phenomenon. The reference and pictures where examined and approved by mail to the Karlstad university and I´m the author and legal owner of the pictures and the text in the report as the mail and Telephone conversation between me, Kau and Wikipedia concluded back in 2009-2010.

I know there are some people who try to steel my report and my examination executive have used my pictures whiteout my approval and correct citation in his Dr exam. But I have the original pictures, the steel plates, proof of me being in the lab making all the tests and all other authorities such as Karlstad University’s library have approved me as the owner of my work. So please stop helping these harassments

If there’s a problem, please tell me what to do. I can make all necessary arrangements, phone calls and mail once again, but it’s ridicules if I have to all this every year. Isn’t Wikipedia alleged to follow legal standards?

Sincerely, Harald W

It's not that what you are doing is illegal. It's that you are pushing your own wares here, which is highly discouraged per WP:COI. Wizard191 (talk) 13:25, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

No, the reference was putt there by another user. So please stop harassing me.

And Why did you delete Adhesive_wear_(material) in the wear article????? Was it because I opened it??? Is it really the Wikipedia spirit to bully some of it’s users???? Stop this and change back all the strange deleted sections and behave normal, it’s actually not fun anymore. --Haraldwallin (talk) 13:44, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

But you want it restored, therefore you are pushing your own wares. As for the red links, they are fine in the see also section, but not as "main" links. Wizard191 (talk) 14:00, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.