NASA tensile strength machine - photos

Tensile strength machine at NASA's Lewis Research Center (now Glenn Research Center), c. 1967.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...924#post175645
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...995#post176002
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...861#post175368
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...114#post176359
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...024#post176118

Fair size machines, that quad ball screw designs pretty much the most stable type, worked on/built those and twin screw units in the past, got some bigger ones here at work for testing building materials sat on the top of our never fuelled reactor as it was the only place strong enough to house them.