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    L410 bag into prop

    The engine cowling looks like it's seen some things...
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    Two instrumemts, Same Loop

    Taicho, it's possible if only using the HART or similar digital communication over the loop, rather than the analog value of the current (standard 4-20ma output)
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    Engineered Materials Handbook Volume 2: Engineering Plastics book

    15 bucks here - https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bi=0&cm_sp=SearchF-_-sf-_-Results&ds=30&isbn=0871702800&sortby=20&sts=t&vci=86215928
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    polymer coating of nonwoven fabric

    It must be heat bonded, since few adhesives work well on low surface energy materials like polyethylene.
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    Omniscient Elon Musk seez....

    I'm sure a person with your research skills can find items that are being considered. JWST would be my prime example.
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    The wheels are falling off the Net Zero Bandwagon 2025 edition

    I don't dispute that, but is your example one of those (you never said it was, nor show anything that proves it is...just noise and hype).
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    pressure drop test nitrogen instead of helium

    Sounded to me like the OP wants to measure a flowing pressure drop (total pressure loss) across an open or partially open valve, i.e. a Cv curve. But, as Wil said, you need to be more specific about what testing you are contemplating. It is still tricky to measure with nitrogen and then...
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    Omniscient Elon Musk seez....

    "I have my doubts as well, which is why I will continue to QUIETLY sit back, watch, and wait." Except for the QUIETLY part? Nothing Musk and his team have done is innovative, it is derivative, at least in the rocket biz. Tesla has done some cool stuff, but they were doing that before Musk...
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    The wheels are falling off the Net Zero Bandwagon 2025 edition

    "How many of these projects were funded by the US government? Here is another collapsing. It seems that there has been a massive collapse of the global green energy initiatives once DOGE started looking under the covers." The one you posted is in Wales, which despite what our president might...
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    SpaceX Starship missions

    You didn't read the article, his numbers are inflation adjusted. Your quoted numbers are for manned lunar missions (including ground support), not payload delivery to LEO. He's using the cost of just the first and second Apollo stages (boosters), not the much more complex and costly Command...
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    Tightest realistic tolerance of a 200mm ID cylinder

    Not sure why the cylinder needs to be stainless steel, but if it's for corrosion resistance more than strength, there are alternatives. An alternative corrosion resistant material would be glass tubing. It's formed to very tight (.001 mm) axial i.d. tolerances (shrink fit from the melt over...
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    Air assisted seal pressure vessel

    A sketch of the seal geometry might help. That said, the seal (presumably made from an elastomer?) will likely deform from the applied hydro test pressure and the internal air will equalize to be substantially the same as the hydro pressure.
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    SpaceX Starship missions

    "Well that is a really terribly written article. It consists only of assumptions." No, there are some quoted facts - like Starship being more expensive per ton to orbit vs. Apollo. Refute the facts? No, a Tubgoat engineer can only make troll comments.
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    Issues with EPDM spinning

    Um, I'm behind the times I guess. I have never heard of EPDM used as a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), usually these are styrenic block or urethane based copolymers. But I can't find mention of an EPDM-block TPE in a casual search. For instance...
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    A little sanity ...

    Because burning H2 with air gives a lot of NOx?

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