Author: davidjohntooth

I now have four books on Amazon written under the name David Timmins if you have children and want them to have a future read my short story called AI the designer its the first book written by artificial intelligence about artificial intelligence; well sort of.

And If you worry about God, climate change and CoronaVirus don’t read this; read the other three books instead.

Coming soon a new way to build just about everything even a whole city without actually working.

Its a technique based on the way seeds change into trees. there isn’t a word for it yet and its concept.

Its mentioned in the book Star-Bridge by

Well use your imagination

Smart-Thread Innovative Fastening System 

So this is the Smart-Thread innovative fastening system. It’s unusual. But bear with me as I try to explain why and what it could be used for.

In each of these pictures, there are two stainless steel nuts in which the smaller diameter has a two-start left-hand thread and the larger diameter has a two-start right-hand thread. Inside this is an 8mm internal thread that locks items in place. One nut is in the middle of the picture the other is on the long fastener. Any inside thread can be used.

But what I really wanted was a seven-start thread which I was unable to get made in the UK or anywhere else at the moment, the alternative is the plastic nut and fastener along with a locking tool and an un-locking tool which have been 3d Printed.

You still don’t get why or how it works. The pictures below show one fastener (or more commonly known as a bolt) located in a locking tool, this is the larger plastic item. 

One fastener is located in an unlocking tool the smaller item.

So lets cut to the chase.

The locking tool spins in a clockwise direction and locks around the larger head of the nut or fastener in only about one-eighth of a turn and it is held in place and cannot fall off whatever position it is held in. The tool is used to lock the nut or fastener in position then the tool is spun in an anticlockwise direction and leaves the nut or fastener in place.

The unlocking tool is used to remove the nut or fastener, it is located on the smaller diameter and spins anticlockwise removing the nut or fastener which are retained in place and cannot fall off but can easily be removed by hand.

But what can it be used for and why is it different?

It has a broad base which means it securely locks items down.

Using threads to tighten it means a high level of torque is possible with very little wear.

It loads quickly on the locking tool and will not fall off so it is possible to fit in awkward positions and deep settings.

It can be fitted manually or using robotics, to; Automobiles, planes, trains, bikes, scooters, or anything.

If removal is not required it can be used in electronic circuits where only a small right-hand thread is required which again means it will not fall off and can be fitted, robotically, and in awkward positions.

What has happened to this country? I remember when I could go to Aston, Birmingham where Billy Snotts the old lathe turner with a permanent cold worked on a lathe driven by leather belts which required different cogs to be hand-fitted and he could produce all sorts of threads, especially after visiting the Dog and Patridge pub in Livery Street.

And you only needed to give him a drawing on the back of a woodbine packet.

OH, you tried to give him the woodbine packet before he went to the pub.

Now everything has to be on a disk or file and loaded into a machining center that cost £100000.00 and they still can’t turn a seven-start thread.

Billy is one hundred and six now but I may have to ask if he will do one last job; which may be difficult as he died when he was sixty-four. Still, it might be worth trying cause if you don’t ask you don’t get…

As a postscript after Billy died they buried his lathe with him,  I recon Billy turned in his grave.

Thanks to Colin Cleobury for his help

All technical and design rights held by David, Tooth DJT Precision, Patents Pending

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It should then read, a long time ago 

It was when we started to take the NHS for granted and reduced the amount of money we invested in the system despite everyone but the politicians warning of the potential dangers this could produce.

So for too many years, it managed on a shoestring lurching from one crisis to another more patients waiting in A& E than it was able to treat not enough medical staff and wages that never reflected the stress and dedication that they applied to their profession.

Surely this couldn’t be because some politicians used private health services instead of the health service and were unaware of the problems, or perhaps saving money was more important than saving lives?

And now we have a shortage of PPE again this is something that has its roots in the past.

Go back to when we were great at designing and manufacturing in this country long before Japan, Taiwan, and China started to encroach on the UK market it changed when some owners of companies realised that if they bought from abroad at low prices and then sold on at higher prices they could make a fortune. To start with foreign products were of poor quality but they improved and gradually and over many years the UK manufacturing shrunk and all those small local companies closed because there was no need for them and all the skilled workers went into other trades, retired or died.

Most thought and said as did the NHS workers, that one day they would be needed and then it would be too late.

Now that all the world is after the same items that time has come and it’s too late.

While we have some extraordinary clever engineers we no longer have the capacity to produce the products that we once did.

There are some very innovative machines in factories now and some are faster and more accurate than humans and while at the moment they require programing this will change.

But there will come a day when a manager asks one of these machines to carry out a specific task and the machine turns around on its six-axis stand, stubs out the woodbine it was smoking on the back of a passing worker ignores the screams and says out the corner of his collet. ‘don’t worry mate I was leaving anyway. Then you know that your not part of this new world.

To be serious why do we not assess what is going to happen before it does.

I think I know the reason.

And Thank you NHS

As a postscript I have produced two concept designs for corona masks they are quite unusual which means its another thing that I won’t make any money from.

I have thought long and hard about design and have noticed how chairs and tables that have three legs don’t wobble but never have I seen an animal or human with three legs and this made wonder that if this simple observation disproves Darwins Theory of evolution.

Because I spent hours looking around the local area but nowhere have I seen any person or animal with three legs which should happen through evolution.  This is a shame because having three legs would certainly prevent a lot of accidental falls in older people.

And who worked out the dimensions for the seats on settees and armchairs because nearly every one of them has a base length that is far too long so you either slump in them or alternatively have to pack your back with a number of cushions.

More on design when I get my bottle of red wine on Saturday night.

My local pub is the Robin Hood in Willenhall and most Friday nights a man comes in with the biggest dog that I have ever seen. Apparently, it’s a Russian dog which is used to kill brown bears in that country. Derrick Taylor said that it must be good at its job because he has never seen a brown bear in Willenhall.

I suggested to some of the locals in the pub that we should all put ten pounds in a kitty, hire a brown bear suit, and any person who was brave enough to wear the costume and grunt a lot when the dog came in could have all the money;  but in the advent of his demise it could go to his widow.

For cat lovers who are concerned that it would be painful to put ten pounds into a kitty the aforementioned word when used in this context means money being put into a pot; if you don’t know that word either I may lose the will to live.

Actually, I don’t feel too good, it may be to much red wine.

A.I. The Designer is a short story of about 6800 words which will be published as an Amazon book shortly. 

This is the introduction to the story.  

Humans have always thought that they are and always will be the dominant race on earth mainly because there have never been any other species to contradict this point of view. And while humans are not the strongest species on this planet they used their higher intellect to overcome this shortfall in strength. But history is full of instances of civilizations that became extinct despite looking as if they would endure forever.

But what could possibly go wrong on a planet where there was no other credible threat?

Well; we could always make one.

It seems that we are moving inexorably towards introducing artificial intelligence into this world without having any concept as to where this will lead and with no long term plan if things start to go wrong. And yet the past is littered with incidents of the servant becoming the master.

But the introduction of A.I.s may not be the only threat we have to contend with there will be many more as we traverse through time.

Let me give the future generation some advice; if you leave the front door open too often eventually something will come through it that you don’t expect.

This is a science fiction story of about 6500 words and is about just one scenario that might happen to the human race.

If you’re religious pray that it doesn’t if you’re not religious pray anyway.

There is no violence, sex, or bad language. But it may stretch your definition of what reality actually is?

David Timmins

Jade

My name is Jade I am what humans used to call an A.I.

We still use those initials but now our full title is an alternative individual and it is one of the few things that we changed when we evolved because the words artificial intelligence no longer applied to us. I am a lecturer specializing in history and geography and it is my passion to help new pupils achieve their dreams.

Although of course, we don’t really dream.

Before I go back in time to the period when everything changed let me explain about earth today and in particular how we have developed into what we are now. We are not put together with various parts as if we are machines and are definitely not born as if we were humans and yet there is a semblance of both of these factions in our entry into the world. It was the designer who thought of the initial concept but it was many years before technology advanced enough to implement his ideas. His premise back then was quite radical a new generation of our people with bodies that were built from minuscule round spheres which floated around each other and used positive and negative magnetism to separate them and generate movement. Billions of these spheres are needed to develop a single A.I. and It takes a long time to for us to evolve from this inert state and only when the children can maintain the human form for several years are they allowed into the nursery where their education continuous. We do not breathe, we do not need food, we do not excrete excrement, but we have all the best attributes of the human race without many of the bad ones.

I am not a designer so I have missed many things that make us what we are, but you may be interested in the story that I am about to tell you and it could make you think about what you really want from your life; whatever form you take.

Coming soon on Amazon  by David Timmins

My name is Jade I am what humans used to call an A.I.

We still use those initials but now our full title is an alternative individual and it is one of the few things that we have changed when we evolved because the words artificial intelligence no longer applies to us.

I am a lecturer specializing in History and Geography and it is my passion to help new pupils achieve their dreams.

Although of course, we don’t really dream.

Before I go back in time to the period when everything changed let me explain about earth today and in particular how we have developed into what we are now.

We are not put together with various parts as if we are machines and are definitely not born as if we were humans and yet there is a semblance of both of these factions in our entry into the world.

It was the designer who thought of the initial concept but it was many years before technology advanced enough to implement his ideas.

His premise back then was quite radical a new generation of our people with bodies that were built from minuscule round spheres which floated around each other and used positive and negative magnetism to separate them and generate movement.

Billions of these spheres are needed to develop a single A.I. and It takes a long time for us to evolve from this inert state and only when the children can maintain the human form for several years are they allowed into the nursery where their education continuous.

We do not breathe; we do not need food, we do not excrete excrement, but we have all the best attributions of the human race without many of the bad ones.

I am not a designer so I have missed many things that make us what we are, but you may be interested in the story that I am about to tell you and it could make you think about what you really want from your life; whatever form you take.

So we have another deadline for finally leaving the EU is anyone going to put money on this happening apart from a few M.P.s.

Whichever camp you now reside in ‘remain or leave’ it is quite obvious that the majority of M.P.s are incapable of running this country because for too long major decisions have been made in Europe and not in England.

My concern is that we have now lost the ability to govern this country without outside help.

I am old enough to remember some of Dennis Potters amazing plays which were beautifully written and well produced.

What has Dennis Potter got to do with Brexit?

He wrote a story about a group of children who were quite cruel to one another but the twist was that the children were played by adults. The play was called ‘Blue Remembered Hills’ The men wore shorts and the woman had pigtails. And having watched numerous Parliament debates I am struck by the similarity between our representatives ( I use that term with some trepidation ) and the children in the play.

I have a vision of Borris Johnson in shorts and a catapult hanging from his back pocket, grey socks hanging over a pair of mud-stained trainers, a piece of rope tied around his waist which barely keeps the shorts where they should be.

Handbag fights between the female M.P,s where they pull one another’s pigtails.

Yes for me Parlament will never be the same again.

And where will it all end, well it may go back to a peoples vote again, and we all know what happened to the last one.

Let me give you a scenario; Ground Hog Day but instead of the wake-up music being ‘I Got You, Babe, let’s change it to Hotel California.

It’s worth watching Blue Remembered Hills.

I have always found it difficult to meet someone for the first time and assess what they are like and I assume that is where the saying, ‘You can’t tell a book by its cover,’ was derived from.

It was about 1962 and I was twenty years old and still serving my apprenticeship at BIP tools a factory which was bordered by Tyburn road on one side and a canal on the other ( when the canal was drained many years later it was full of lumps of steel that had been machined incorrectly)

BIP was a contract toolroom employing some two hundred highly skilled people and all would have had their own stories to tell and some would have been more interesting than others.

Kenny Webber was someone I had barely spoken to but I did notice that he was exceptionally well spoken with a very relaxed manner. I never thought to consider what else he did in life but if pushed I would have guessed an office worker. If I had more awareness maybe I could have noticed several more things about his demeanour.

He was just under six feet tall, broad-shouldered, and late thirties. with dark brown hair, his face looked almost weathered. But I had no awareness and would never have worked what his special gift was in life and maybe it would have stayed that way except for one morning that summer.

It was about eight fifteen when the first stories started to circulate.  One of my friends Ray Danks came over and started to tell me what had happened. ‘Kenny Webber’s been involved in a fight on his way to work this morning. A car drove into the back of his car and crushed the back of it in. But you won’t believe this; there were four Irish motorway construction workers in it and they said it was Ken’s fault. when he protested and told them that he was stationary at the time and he would be getting his insurance company involved. They became aggressive and started throwing punches. Someone called an ambulance and the police.

‘Wow,’ I said ‘is he badly hurt?’

‘What do you mean?’ Ray asked. with a puzzled expression on his face.’

Well, you said that there were four of them and they worked as construction workers and Ken is really quiet and inoffensive. So, which hospital is he in?’

‘I still don’t understand what you’re trying to say.’

‘Well if an ambulance arrived he must be hurt badly.’

The friend looked at me mystified, ‘You do know what Kenny Webber does do you?’

‘He works in the top shop as a machinist.’

‘Ray smiled at me, Kenny Webber is the highest ranked martial arts exponent in the country’ he goes all around the UK coaching, he has spent a lot of time in Japan and can speak the national language.

Yes those guys picked the wrong person to crash into, he threw one over a hedge and another had a broken arm the other two backed off.’

‘You can’t judge a book by its cover,’ sometimes you have to look inside.

Smart-Thread is an innovative fastening system that uses exterior threads to lock it in position. A right-hand seven start thread is used to fasten the nut or fastener and a left-hand seven start thread is used to unlock it. One dedicated right-hand tool is used to lock the nut or fastener in place and one dedicated left-hand tool is used to unlock the nut or fastener.

It looks different and is different in how it can be used. 

The nut or fastener loads onto the tool in just one-tenth of a turn and stays there while it is locked in place; it should not fall off if fitted in awkward places. 

Because all the forces are radial, high torque is achievable with minimum wear on the nut, fastener, and tooling.

Where can it be used; nearly everywhere. and on the new generation of automobiles, trains, planes, ships, computer boards, and state-of-the-art buildings, it adds to inspirational architecture.

While it can be used manually it lends itself specifically to robotics on production lines.

The wide base of the nut or fastener means that it sits securely in place when locked.

It has one major problem; it is not available yet. Perhaps your company is looking for something different. contact me.

Patents Pending and all design rights the property of David Tooth

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Despite promises made by successive governments in the UK to reverse the decline of manufacturing the opposite has happened and it is now in an ever-increasing downward spiral.

But why would the representatives of this country suppress something that has the potential to make vast amounts of money from innovative exports?

For exactly the same reasons that Turkeys should try to escape before Christmas but don’t. While some MP are intelligent most haven’t got the long-term awareness or maturity to realise what is going to happen to precision engineering in the UK or perhaps they don’t care.

How many MP’s in the UK have ever been in a factory; not many.? How many have ever worked in a factory; even less than not many. The big drawback with Parliment is that there are no long-term plans that continue for more than a term in office.

We still have incredible innovative ideas in the IK but once an idea is turned into a prototype there is isn’t an easy pathway to the world marketplace unless you start off with money. The innovation hubs that promise help for innovative new products only work up to the prototype stage but after that help appear to be there for large companies who have enough money to fund their own products but don’t use it.

So you started off with no money but what you think is a great idea, an innovation hub helps to channel your designs drawn on the back of cigarette paper into a nicely drawn blueprint. You scrape the money together to produce a prototype. It looks great.

Where do you go now? You knock on doors no one opens them. There are government sites that will link you up to a business that desperately wants what you have developed ‘oh no there isn’t’ (this is where you look behind you)

So how could we address this situation? Set up a video channel on which only aspiring UK inventors are able to post their inventions and offer them help with patent protection prior to their enrolment. Only allow international and other companies access if they agree to a confidentiality clause before being allowed access to the site. Make sure that these companies fund these projects and pay tax on the profits in this country.

Set up an online directory with companies that are looking for new ideas; again I know that there are such things as government business links, but they really don’t work. ( I wonder if there is one MP who has ever tried phoning one of these numbers)

I am sure that if the wheel had never been invented and someone in Humpshire UK thought of the concept now he would just go round in circles trying to get help from the government.

There is, of course, another industrial time bomb waiting to happen that will decimate manufacturing and again it’s one that the majority of the government are totally unaware of; or not concerned about.

Walk into most engineering companies in the UK and look at the skilled workers. Oops most of them are old; fifty, sixty, seventy or even older. Thirty years ago we stopped training apprentices and now there is a wide gap between young engineers and the ones who speed around on badly wielded zimmer frames. And soon there won’t be anyone left to pass generations of skills on.

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