From LEGOs to Ziploc: The Science of the Snap Fit
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Some LEGO doesn’t snap-fit. The average blocks don’t. There’s a good portion of pieces that do.
Neither regular no Duplo Lego bricks snap-fit. They all have very smooth friction-fit and at no point the force needed to bring them together changes.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cnc+joinery&t=ffab&iax=images&ia=i...
Why Machines That Bend Are Better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97t7Xj_iBv0
What is a good real world example of this? Maybe something like a spring loaded system which takes force to load but then is released with simple trigger.
Don't worry, that Yeti is still a great cooler (I jest, I jest)
Source: I engineer tactile mechanisms to price points for a living.
> It's not a cynical marketing ploy like you describe - it's functional.
I believe the parent comment is saying that the closing-force varies closely with price; as price goes up, so does the force required to close it. While there may be a functional reason for some difference between opening-force and closing-force, you wouldn't expect that functional reason to result in that correlation so strongly, and that the majority of the difference in force at high price points is a cynical marketing ploy. (I'm not sure I buy that, it makes sense to me that a more expensive cooler has a thicker gasket to get a better seal.)
Yeti is a well-known expensive brand of coolers.
I.e. residential fuses? (At least here in Switzerland)
It looks like this is just a fun investigation into something that's novel to the author but not to the world. Shouldn't it be a blog and not something with a DOI?