I snortled.
@georgetakei
Makes you wonder whether they apply similar cost-cutting measures at SpaceX, using adhesives "prone to environmental embrittlement".
@cqd_sos @georgetakei Seeing the rate at which SpaceX stuff blows up, it is rather likely.

@georgetakei

My man, you are a national treasure. Keep posting!

@georgetakei

"I know more about manufacturing than anyone else alive on earth."

- Musk -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4npuqrHBDY

Elon Musk Interview: "I know more about manufacturing than anyone else alive on earth."

YouTube
@georgetakei I, too, am losing my battle with environmental embrittlement.
@georgetakei Perhaps Tesla assembly employees did the same to produce the required glue ๐Ÿคง
@georgetakei Next time Musk or Drumpf has a meltdown, we should say they had an environmental brittlement episode.

@dhj1961 @georgetakei

If either of them experiences a rapid unscheduled disassembly, I'm with Clarence Darrow: "I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."

@georgetakei
Or is it โ€œenvironmental enshittificationโ€?
@georgetakei considering the enormous variations on the panel gaps Iโ€™ve seen on several Iโ€™m not shocked. Bad panel gaps on vehicles that havenโ€™t been in a collision are a direct result of shit manufacturing.

@georgetakei

Or, you know, maybe not glue a car together.

Call me crazy, but didn't bolts and nuts work rather well for a few hundred years now?

@BuckRogers1965 @georgetakei Actually all modern cars have significant use of adhesive, properly applied they are stronger than welds, bolts and nuts (which concentrate load on narrow areas)

@fdr @georgetakei

Never used in any car I will ever drive. And if it falls the f off, it is demonstrably not stronger.

More like they were put together with the cheapest glue they could find
@georgetakei Semi trucks have been using adhesive (3M custom cut double sided super tape) to hold the body panels in place for YEARS. Elmo did not use the best available, he cut corners, and it shows
@georgetakei "environmental embrittlement" I love it!
@georgetakei "environmental embrittlement" is the most awesome thing I've read today.