AIRCRAFT-GRADE ALUMINUM
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Replying to @Pinboard
The real trigger word for me is “Billet” SO WRONG A WORD!
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Replying to @gak_pdx
I don’t even know that one. Do they mean a flat chunk of metal? I only know the military usage (for personnel assignments)
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Replying to @Pinboard
What they *really* mean is “Machined from bar stock,” but nobody knows WTF bar stock is, so people use billet improperly
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Replying to @gak_pdx
I’m surprised they don’t talk about making it from a “single crystal of aluminum”
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Replying to @Pinboard
haha… Boeing is actually doing that, in titanium. Liquid Metal is basically just that as well.
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Replying to @gak_pdx
oh do you know the fun anecdote about how Boeing got the Russians to teach them how to machine titanium?
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Replying to @Pinboard
No idea… except I see trucks with boatloads of russian text on them driving to the Boeing gear factory here, assuming it’s all Ti
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Replying to @gak_pdx
at one point this was sketched on the tablecloth, which the Russians took home. This is in Joe Sutter’s autobiography
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Replying to @Pinboard
Ha… I semi remember that. Sutter is an American hero.
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