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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...2707#post96925
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...836#post102618
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...1199#post73924
:lol: Good one Jon. :clapping:
Well, they wouldn't approve my eraser.
Yep but they would have no problem with a $400.00 5 sided 3 mm allen wrench or a $2000.00 hammer with a retractable lanyard
Will a HSS tool suffice or is carbide required
ONLY if you're the government! Though a banker can apparently claim the $220K he spent on strip clubs as a business expense...Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
BTW, you know that the reason that stuff costs so much is the Congress of the United States established organizations to define the standards those tools and parts must meet? And then to enforce them? Can't just order a hammer or a toilet seat for a C-130. Must order from a vendor that ensures all the standards are met by a manufacturer who meets those standards, including minority ownership, material sourced only in the US unless there were clear reasons why you had to go elsewhere. As a USAF photographer from 1976 to 1985, I mostly used NIKON F camera for 35mm film, since no one in the US made a better camera. The film was made by Kodak, since they were a US manufacturer who more-or-less owned a few congresscritters. ;) Go buy a 10-32 panhead screw certified for aircraft use. I dare you! :) Did I mention that before I became a photographer for Uncle Sam, I was an F-111D fighter/bomber aircraft mechanic? And the toolbox the USAF supplied me, that weighed in at 200lbs, or more than I did, was full of Globemaster tools and wrenches. Working in supply must have been a helluva gig.
Bill
WmRMeyers hit it on the head; starting with what makes ISO look infantile "Must order from a vendor that ensures all the standards are met by a manufacturer who meets those standards". It's known as MIL-SPEC MIL-STD. Individual services have amplifying requirements, as they operate in different spheres. ie salt water corrosion differs from that occurring in space.
I can relate exact same conditions;
handling and living on the first NUCLEAR CARRIER,
building the world's best tape recorders THE ONLY ONE SUITED FOR SPACE LAUNCH_FLIGHT_ENVIRONMENT_RECOVERY, 1" reel to reel BTW,
all kinds of SPACE SHUTTLE COMPONENTS,
and top of the heap WORLDS SAFEST [yet incredibly destructive] PRODUCT.
A great failing of cable show "How It's Made" neglects more important "Why It's Made", and "Who It's Made For".
Man-o-man, got my rant hat on today. :angry:
Let it out, and don't try to hold it in, or it will ruin your liver and your outlook on life!Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
Way I rant, I may be good to 160 years! ;)
Am reminded of having print out the frag order (document that told all the units in theater what air power was available, what it was tasked for, and when and where it would be applied, i.e., where to go, and who to shoot when they got there) to helicopter out to the aircraft carrier so they could break out their portions for the air war portion of Desert Storm. My unit ran the air war. We had to coordinate with the Marine, Navy, and Army air wings as much as our own and the NATO allies. Navy could handle the stuff for the Marine Corps, fortunately. But their equipment was not compatible with ours. Specifically because of the salt-water tolerance issues, and it had been that way for decades. For all I know, it may still be so, but one of the terminals we used got strapped to the deck of the USS America in the Indian Ocean later in the 90's, and we had satellite comm passing clear around the world. The idea was to make us all Purple. ;) To have us all be interoperable the next time a war breaks out. I've got something of a vested interest in it, seeing as my oldest daughter was on the USS Harry S Truman when the Iranians were launching missiles over her back in the day. I do not know where she or her husband are these days, but I hope their vessels can at least communicate war-related data to all the armed forces of the United States now.
Bill <--- it's in God's hands, ain't nothing I can do about it now.
Don't blame us Jon, you started it:lol::hattip:
I've been thinking about the guy who thought it would take $100K of tools to make this device. I went to Harbor Freight's website and put everything I thought he might possibly need from them to do the job, and it came to a bit over $2310, including shipping, handling charges, and OK sales tax. 7x12 mini-lathe and tooling, wood and metalworking bandsaws with blades, angle grinder and sander, with 4.5 & 7 inch wheels. Could have gotten a bench grinder and belt sander for another couple of hundred dollars, with belts and grinding wheels. Though I could do it with what I have here and not touch the lathe, or any of the bandsaws. It can't be that tough a job, can it? Maybe if it was my 3rd stepfather. He was utterly useless with cars and trucks, and worse than I am in the garden. Somebody needs to get some books and start playing.
Bill
Saluting WmRMeyers, and our many other veterans.
In case anyone had a long period feeling safe on West Coast........
USNRD SAN DIEGO, NAVAIRSTA MEMPHIS, USS ENTERPRISE, USS KITTY HAWK, USS INDEPENDENCE, USS CONSTELLATION, USS FLATLEY,
CONSTRUCTION BATTALION PT. HUENEME, ACU-1, NAVWEPSTA PT. MUGU,
SIMD's @ CORONADO - SAN DIEGO - PUGET SOUND - LONG BEACH;
NAVSTA LONG BEACH, NAVSTA ROOSEVELT ROADS, NAVSTA SUBIC BAY, USCGSTA TERMINAL ISLAND,
NAVAIRSTA KEY WEST, NAVAIRSTA NORTH ISLAND, NAVAIRSTA PT. MUGU....
.........but I had help, lol. 26 years worth.
Some barely objectionable, two a bit worse, NONE more asinine to what have transpired lately.
Whole stinking world knows three of them, for sure.
Speaking of the Kitty Hawk, Toolmaker...
Sadly, she's being towed from Bremerton to the breakers in Brownsville, TX via Cape Horn (too big to go through canal). They stopped off briefly in Long Beach Harbor where these photos were taken.
The first photo shows what the harbor looks like now. It's a virtual forest of container cranes. In the second photo you can see the Spruce Goose dome in the background with a cruise ship moored in front. The other cruise ships are empty; just killing time until Covid subsides.
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Yeah, Kitty Hawk era past some time back, now at anchor, that'll be used just one more time.
I don't mind too much, lots of terrific experiences aboard those varied stations. Nothing that works so hard lasts forever. Ships can be replaced.
I don't think one thing ever angered me more than the BRAC; disposing of property that cannot be replaced. Who looked at the West Coast, comparing San Diego with Coronado bridge in the way, Puget Sound that could easily be netted and mined, or weak San Francisco; and sacrifice Long Beach? The only true deep water port on the entire coastline. Yeah, couldn't have been any BS going on there. Shipping containers? Uh huh, Human trafficking, stores full of crappy toys, huge security issues, unreal traffic by rail, the poor Harbor & Long Beach freeways plus all the last 10-15 miles of intersecting freeways, meanwhile we financed the CCC we face today. What kind of ROI is that?
Marv, next time available, treat special guests and yourself for tour of The IOWA, SS Lane Victory, Maritime Museum area, all generally in San Pedro. It'll take a succession of trips. Confident you'll get 'that feeling'. In September, Lane Victory puts out with paying guests aboard. I've been out twice, XO of Haven Division US Naval Sea Cadets. NO ghosts, just a lot of veterans and volunteers keep her seaworthy. The best living history ever.
I've been haze gray almost half my adult life, all kinds of been there done so and so. Just thinking about that I described, 1700 miles away again, still makes me feel just one inch tall.
I live on the Palos Verdes peninsula and the view from the family room includes all of Long Beach, the port and a chunk of San Pedro. I've toured the Lane Victory several times, even organized a tour for our metalworking club, have a great collection of photographs from my visits on the Iowa, and the Maritime Museum was right next to one of our favorite Mexican restaurants, sadly now closed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
I've always been fascinated with the Navy. As a kid I built a miniature navy of my own with Revell plastic ship models; learned a lot of terminology and function from that. Later I graduated to wooden sailing ship models and that work fostered my DIY tool building efforts.
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