Heywood wrote:Interia welding. Basically you take two different metals (This was stainless and hastelloy) and jam them together and high speed and pressure. 3300 RPM and 600 psi. I had only one shot at the picture, hence it came out blurry. Didnt have the settings right for the light condition.
Years ago when I was working with my tools, most of my work was done as an Electrical Subcontractor at Pratt & Whitney in WPB. I have seen and wired some very awesome things most public will never see.
One of the processes we wired was a machine, if I recall correctly was called Gatorizing. This machine was a large chamber where they took two dissimilar alloys, put them in a chamber, pumped the vacumn down to 3 tor (my memory may be fading there) which I beleive is the equivelent to the vacumn of outerspace, applied pressure and then applied a high voltage to fuse the alloys. It was an amazing process.
When they pumped down the chamber, we put a length of unistrut across the door. The door, which was 3/4 stanless steel with 3 inch cross bracing bowed in almost 3/4 of an inch.
Cool stuff.
. The scenery out there is incredible.