And did these valves pass "Hot" material?
You could out a bumper snicker on car car then that said
"Hot Car" or "Radio Active" or "I glow at night"
Q
At 12:06 AM 5/18/97 +0000, Scott Gardner wrote:
>> >Barney,
>> No, I'm pretty sure Stellite hardness goes all the way to the
>> bone. Before my illustrious career as a Naval Officer, I was an
>> enlisted nuclear reactor operator. Some of the valves in the primary
>> cooling system are made of stellite, or as we called it,
>> stellite-haynes. It refers to a specific composition of steel, and
>> I think, chromium. If I hadn't brain-dumped all of my nuke
>> knowledge, I could probably tell you what the exact composition is
>> that has been trademarked as "Stellite".
>> Regards,
>> Scott Gardner
>> gardner@lwcomm.com
>> < www.lwcomm.com/~gardner
>>
>>
>> WOW! So if we put in stellite valves, we can put a sticker on the car:
>> "Powered by Nuclear Reactor components"?
>>
>
>I guess so, but there are valves and then there are !!VALVES!! The
>main coolant cutout valves we used are about five feet tall, and
>weigh about 3000lbs. You could probably melt one down and make two
>or three complete MGB shells.
> I wish I had my 'B' when I worked on the reactors, because I swear,
>looking back on it, our electrics were made by Lucas.
>
>Scott Gardner
>gardner@lwcomm.com
>www.lwcomm.com/~gardner
>
>
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