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[Farwell]

crbr,
There was a nuke plant being built about 30 miles from where I live. They had every tool you could think of as well. Don't know the reason but work stopped on the project and everything still sits where it did the day they stopped the project. This was several years ago and nothing has been touched since. Wish I had access.

 

[patrick_g]

Don't forget that the operators have to be of a class equal to the nice tools or you still don't get good results. A great machinist can do some pretty darned good work with crap for tools but a poor machinist can't do good work no matter how terrific his tools are.

I recall a friend giving an old worn out flat blade tweaking took for adjusting 10 turn potentiometers to a machinist to make him a new one. When he got it back you couldn't tell the difference. You couldn't tell which was the model and which the copy. He even duplicated the nearly worn out knurling on the round aluminum handle.

Pat

 

[gemini5362]

Don't forget that the operators have to be of a class equal to the nice tools or you still don't get good results. A great machinist can do some pretty darned good work with crap for tools but a poor machinist can't do good work no matter how terrific his tools are.

I recall a friend giving an old worn out flat blade tweaking took for adjusting 10 turn potentiometers to a machinist to make him a new one. When he got it back you couldn't tell the difference. You couldn't tell which was the model and which the copy. He even duplicated the nearly worn out knurling on the round aluminum handle.

Pat

10 turn potentiometers now I wonder how many people on here know what that is ?

 

[patrick_g]

10 turn potentiometers now I wonder how many people on here know what that is ?

Probably a lot more than know about autosyns, selsyns, mag amps, velocity servos, analog computer based flight simulation, dual beam ultra violet spectrophotometers, and a raft of other things I have been involved with.

When someone asked me what I was working on I just said "stuff" kinda like the spooks who said they were greeting card salesmen on "Get Smart." Try to explain an electronic goniometer and its use in radio direction finding to a "just plain Joe" and watch their eyes glaze over.

I used to be "interred" in a Gov lab employing 5,000 civilians and a few military types. Many of us couldn't talk shop with each other due to differing backgrounds.

Pat

 

[crbr]

crbr,
There was a nuke plant being built about 30 miles from where I live. They had every tool you could think of as well. Don't know the reason but work stopped on the project and everything still sits where it did the day they stopped the project. This was several years ago and nothing has been touched since. Wish I had access.

Midland. Shut down in 85 if I recall correctly. Maybe a few years beyond that. It was sinking. Literally.

But I tell ya and as you say... Those guys had every conceivable tool one could need.

 

[mjncad]

The name Peddinghaus piqued my curiosity, and it has no direct German to English translation that I could find; but the "haus" translates to "house."

Anyway, this Bradley, Illinois company makes some steel fabrication machinery that goes beyond the term manly.

Check out their web site at Peddinghaus Beam Drill Line, Angle Line, Plate Fabrication, Ironworker, Beam Cambering along with a number of the videos of their machines in action. Very impressive!

So nice to see USA on their products instead of "Made in China!"

 

[gemini5362]

Probably a lot more than know about autosyns, selsyns, mag amps, velocity servos, analog computer based flight simulation, dual beam ultra violet spectrophotometers, and a raft of other things I have been involved with.

When someone asked me what I was working on I just said "stuff" kinda like the spooks who said they were greeting card salesmen on "Get Smart." Try to explain an electronic goniometer and its use in radio direction finding to a "just plain Joe" and watch their eyes glaze over.

I used to be "interred" in a Gov lab employing 5,000 civilians and a few military types. Many of us couldn't talk shop with each other due to differing backgrounds.

Pat

Hmm I know what most of those things are along with velocity matrixes, 36:1 servos, and my all time favorite Hybrid Rings. Actually in college I got smart aleck with a teacher who said we would understand RF by the time we finished his course. I said then you will explain the theory behind Hybrid Rings in a way we can understand it. He gave me a really dirty look and said " Yes I will" I will be danged if he didn't. I have had several courses on that subject and he was the first person that explained it in a way that was understandable.

 

[patrick_g]

gemini, Few folks know about your list and maybe different folks than those who know about mine.

If anyone cares about the hybrid ring, a pretty good plain language explanation (you do need a little filter background) is here:

Hybrid Ring Duplexer Theory

Undergrad physics labs in electronics used to amuse me when we were doing experiments with obvious results to a couple of us Ham radio types that seemed to elude the budding young scientist types with wrinkled brow.

Playing with synchronous motors like selsyns and autosyns was fun. I had extensive courses in these topics in USAF schools. They always culminated with T-shooting things like a missing wire or reversed connections which you should deduce from indications noted when turning one and watching the other. Even more fun is watching a young EE type trying to do an information flow chart that incorporates synchronous motors. Well du-uh are the wires power wires or signal wires. Both. Huh? BOTH! I don't get it are they for power or information, the computer tool has to know which way to portray them on the info flow chart and represent them in the data base to enforce consistency. What part of B O T H is it that you don't understand? Huh?

Pat

 

[gemini5362]

Pat we are kind of getting away from this thread and I do not know many tractors that use the stuff we are talking about. I will say one thing though I read your link and did not know that you could use a hybrid ring as a filter. The ones I have seen used are waveguide and used for passive RF summation networks.