Jack,
Was that at the plant near Boston? I got to tour through there when I
was with the nuclear science program, around 1992. It was very
cool--they had pictures of the damage it could do to a tank (the
spallation would take out the instruments and any "soft bits" that were
inside the tank, rendering it totally inoperable), and I believe they
said at the time that the record with one DU "dart" was through six
tanks and penetration of one more, for a total of seven (for testing,
they lined tanks up in a row and shot through them). They made DU cores
that could be made into different munition configurations, depending on
the fins, heads and casings that could be put on them. At the end of the
tour they let us handle the cores, and the weight was amazing!
We also got to tour the tokamak at MIT on that trip--it was sad because
they had totally disassembled it for repairs, but very interesting
because we got to see it all that way (huge tokamak puzzle, anyone?),
plus the power room for the thing was absolutely amazing (copper bus the
SIZE of a bus, almost).
Very cool!
Have a great day!
Susan :)
Jack Brooks wrote:
>> Even depleted Uranium.
>>
>
> Mordy,
>
> Nice guy! You ought to be selling those spacers to the MG guys. It's twice
> as good as steel and about four times better than Titanium. Well maybe that
> much more dense. I used to keep 2 identically shaped parts on my desk;
> aluminum and DU. It was wild to watch people pick them up. <grin>
>
> I used to build ammo with DU. It's sure is pretty to watch when it goes
> through steel at super sonic speeds and goes starts to burn/spall. Always
> made a mess on the inside of armored vehicles.
>
> Jack
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [Fot] Wheel spacers (was: aluminum hubs)
>
> I have made lots of wheel spacers before. Once a CAD program is made... the
> rest is cake. Water jet cuts this like hot knife through butter.
>
> By the way. For any racing members I have a special on depleted uranium
> spacers 2-3" thickness.
>
> m
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