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Every Thursday, our Industry Readlines email features interesting, helpful, or funny things from around the technical world. Whether you are in design, machining, production, or inspection this will be a great weekly read. 

From the GD&T Basics Team: Effects of Larger Tolerance Values

In this Question Line video, Jason discusses a drawing that has a tight tolerance on the location of two holes that relate back to datum features that have much larger form control tolerances. He explains how the form tolerance of the datum features affects the wall thickness and walks through the worst-case minimum wall thickness calculation for the part.

- Tom

https://www.gdandtbasics.com/effects-of-larger-tolerance-values/

What Exactly Happened On SpaceX's FIFTH Starship Test Flight:

Watch this video to view SpaceX's historic rocket catch and learn all that happened on this test flight...and what it means for Starship going forward.

 - Jason

https://youtu.be/vypjY9EU04g?si=3kKbEdSlsmN4aoao

Client Highlight: Immensa

We are excited to showcase our client, Immensa, this week! Immensa is a digital manufacturing pioneer revolutionizing the global spare parts supply chain through secure digital warehousing and advanced metal and polymer additive manufacturing technologies. Learn how they provide turnkey solutions to their clients in this video:

- Lisa

https://youtu.be/beegcAL0xGo?si=E64Olh_HOSuTWHCI

The Process of Making Giant Springs:

This video illustrates the manufacturing processes (austinitizing, hot-coiling, and quenching) used to create giant 1,000lb springs used in the sub-sea oil and gas industry.

- Brandon

https://youtu.be/nauLVPsaXM8?si=6pBx3cWTh3u1LFXv

For a Good Laugh: Tolerance Analysis

Hanging in there.

- Molly

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