Hi Dave,

As usual you cover the threads very well with your posts.
So you mean we shouldn’t use the webbing from a broken lawn lounge chair. 🤫

Art didn’t plug in his web site photos of the working or ratchet end of a seat belt in this thread.
So I will. http://cleanflametrap.com/v83belt.html

In the second photo it displays the finger that grabs the wheel to lock the winder.
The bobble weight or inertia weight is in behind the plate.
Just by using something close to X-ray vision, it’s not hard to imagine how sensitive it is to engage.

Nice to read about the ISO organization.
Now I know why there are so many numbers after ISO - x x x x x .
Thank heavens for these people doing such work.

Did you know that there are many public projects engineered in many states where there are laws to exempt using licensed and accredited engineers.
Only Arkansas and Oklahoma do not allow such practices to over ride federal mandates that are supported by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1889.

Maybe that’s why entertainment stages of night clubs and such have collapsed.
This may have cause Boeing’s 737 Max 8 to be plaque with issues because of a bottom line attitude over teams working with less than professional engineers and then it is allowed to creep about.
2.5 billion was the fine for the 349 passengers & families to get only 500 million to squabble over.
I just gave out a synopsis.

Steam is building up in the Machine Design world to bring up more attention about the whole engineering thing in the past.
If you would like to have something to mull over like I did with the ISO you put in that very informative post, try this.

https://www.machinedesign.com/community/guest-commentary/article/21235491/getting-rid-of-engineering-licensingexemption-law?utm_source=MN+MD+Today&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS230719031&o_eid=9049F9628890F7D&rdx.ident[pull]=omeda|9049F9628890F7D&oly_enc_id=9049F9628890F7D

It is a two part article in a subscription I maintain @ no cost so far.
It’s sort of industrial in nature but it’s world wide.

Thanks for being on the Brickboard.

Phil