Tractor backhoe - homemade
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Another funny thing is how Sergej Korolyov was taken back from the gulag to lead the USSR space program, also a prisoner: Soviet space program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/QUOTE]
You should have read this before you made the comment that the U.S. could not have gone to the moon without the German Scientist. Repeating my previous post both the U.S. and the Russians used captured German rocket scientists on their programs. Both countries were in a race for a dependable intercontinental missile to be used as a weapons platform.
You should have read this before you made the comment that the U.S. could not have gone to the moon without the German Scientist. Repeating my previous post both the U.S. and the Russians used captured German rocket scientists on their programs. Both countries were in a race for a dependable intercontinental missile to be used as a weapons platform.
Russian equipment is quite reliable. We bought our MTZ 820 in 2004., brand new and since then there were no major problems. I change oil at regular intervals, wash him and lubricate where necessary and can't complain at all. The machine has alot of power and great trasction in mud. It pulls a 3 furrow 16 " plough and a 36 disc harrow weighing almost a ton without any problems. So..I thing they did a good job
Redneck in training
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2004 was made after second revolution. Quality was not important but only number produced before the second revolution. Competitive pressure improves quality.
Renze
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...I did read it, but did YOU ?? Sergej Korolyov was NOT a German, neither any of his colleagues...
Korolyov used Germans to reassemble the soon to be obsolete V2 and its Russian successor, but no Germans had involvement in the R7 rocket program, nor the Sputnik project. The top dogs of German rocket engineering lead by Wernher von Braun fled into US conquered area because they knew the Russians were coming to their base, and they felt they were better off in US custody. When the land was divided into east and west, US teams had already shipped all the important stuff behind the later iron curtain, so the Russians had the base, but only the lesser engineers, and not the premium technology..... the US held the German top dogs back, first insisting on letting Americans do the job, but after failure let the Germans develop the Saturn rockets and the Apollo program. Von Braun led the US space program from 1960-1970. So, while both programs were based on German technology, it was between Russian and German designs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST4emxOd9Qo
As said before, i like to hear inside stories and facts over propaganda from either side...
And i have deep respect for the Russian engineers that had all odds against them, imprisoned, under fear of being shot for failure, etcetera. Nonetheless they were mere slaves...
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Renze
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Thats why MiG's. T-55s and Soyuz were quite reliable, (cold war competition) and a lot of domestic use products were varying in quality quite a lot...
Indeed many Russian designs were copied American ones, they even disassembled a B-29 long range bomber screw by screw and copied every part of it into their TU-4, though it had its fair share of problems because the differences caused by rounding the dimensions proved essential...
Tupolev Tu-4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Just like my experience with a non-technical chief that tells you to copy someone elses design, it seems simpler than it is because the design should be suitable for the production technologies and standardised materials or subcomponents available
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Redneck in training
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I started new thread devoted to the topic West versus East competition. Western versus Eastern technology competition
Renze
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well Bfreaky, any progress on the backhoe during christmas and new years holiday ??
I mounted all the hoses and disassembled the booms. There are a few little things I need to weld, and then paint the banana boom. As always, I have a full schedule at work and at home...that has to change as soon as possible... so I can finish this project
so I can finish this project
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Finally found some spare time...and here are the results. First boom welded and polished, cleaned up with a nitro solvent, and painted with 2K primer. Now she's gonna dry till next year , then I'll continue.
, then I'll continue.
