Comments on: January 30, 2023 Quick space links

By: Ryan Lawson

Ryan Lawson — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:13:23 +0000

I was the first to push use of ultrasonic cleaners for extruder parts in my company. I had first used ultrasonic cleaners as a step in the process of restoring old metal miniatures after stripping the paint, it helped remove the paint still stuck in small crevices.

Here is another one I wonder if they have thought about, highly polishing the insides of flow channels and piping in rocket components. A guy I work with does this for air intakes on some cars as a hobby because it increases power by like 5% according to him.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 18:14:48 +0000

Reminds me of reading NASA Tech Briefs many years ago. I used to laugh at some of the inventions. They were things that were in common use in manufacturing and the real world. No diversity.
The most unique cross industry reuse of technology I saw (some time ago):
Toilet paper roll handling for packaging was adapted to a shredded wheat biscuit production line.
That Project / Design engineering firm had enough breadth to see how one industries solutions could be used elsewhere.

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 06:18:53 +0000

They are a bright and hardworking people. As I recall-a sliding German shower fixture inspired a Hubble repair instrument. I have wondered if any work on bridge construction or vibration might also be of use with ever larger rockets. Other message boards gave me headaches about such musings being "off topic." Those two words are worse than "I can't" or "not feasible" when it comes to innovation killers. "Energy vampires" Saban calls them.