Hey Bulldog, I’ve been working on a new lock mechanism that’s meant to be fail‑proof—every tooth is ground to exact tolerances. Got any experience with building something that can’t give up?

I started with a 12‑tooth gear set, each tooth measured to 0.001 mm, all in the same orientation. I milled the housing with a 5‑micron repeatability laser, then hand‑finished the contact surfaces to a mirror finish. After that I ran 200,000 cycles on a custom test rig—each cycle was a complete lock‑and‑unlock at 5 rpm. The only failure was a 0.02‑mm wobble in the cam that I immediately re‑machined to a tighter radius. I’m still tweaking the spring preload, but everything else holds steady. Is that good enough?

Thanks, I’ll keep a log of temperature spikes and run the dust‑insertion test tomorrow. If the gear still sings without a hitch, I’ll let the lock stay in its own shrine.

Will do. I’ll post the logs after each run. Expect only the most pristine data.