See

http://orders.ejma.org/

I strongly recommend the practical guide... you can show it to the next bone head who wants to make the over load or over stressed condition go away magically by putting an EJ in... NOT!

You can actually get these for free from the reps of some EJMA members. It is naturally in their best interest to have the people who will be specifying these joints have some decent knowledge of how they will work.

I would think EJMA would do itself a big favor if it just put that practical guide out as a free PDF file.

Wow! Just looked at the link - $25 now for the guide???? I thought that book was something like $7 not too long ago.

Yes true enough, but the last copy I saw showed what I believe was a decline in membership as more of the U.S. economy is offshored... wonder if it will be printed in Hindu?

Hindu.......
At least (i presume) you (Luf) will be retired before the watershed of engineering and manufacturing experiance /knowledge ability/goes to lost cost centres like mumbai/ warsaw etc.

Myself, i estimate 10 years before i stack shelves at the local mart.

De-centralisation is here to stay, and who knows, in 100 years time maybe the circle will come back on itself and the USA will be the low cost center of the world.

Read the book the world is flat....

I view this as water seeking its own level. Once China and India move upwards they will become less desirable also the high cost of oil will cause an increase in transportation costs that will tend to decrease the wage rate advantages of the two massive countries involved in offshoring China and India.

I saw the US automotive industry originally lose jobs to Japaneese workers. The Japaneese workers salaries went up because of supply and demand. Eventually the Japaneese manufacturers built factories in the U.S.A. and hired laid off U.S.A. engineers to do their design work, this has been quite succesful for them.

Interestingly the whole thing has shed light on the fact that the U.S.A. work force minus its bloated, poor management can be competitive in the worlds workplace.

But when water is seeking its own level one has to be careful not to get drowned!

People are people and good people will always eventually be gainfully employed IMHO.