Bloodhound LSR Thread As Requested...

Bloodhound LSR Thread As Requested...

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ivanhoew

978 posts

242 months

Sunday 11th January 2015
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Max_Torque said:
I assume it's to enable the team to trial fit and "align" (with a big hammer??) the hinges for said doors, before the "real" doors are available, which are probably milled by hand trained royal blood hamsters out of the worlds finest unobtainium and then bathed in the milk of 1000 Oxen for 100 days before being polished to a shine by 24 vessel virgins. or something like that.... ;-)


(hinges must be a bit of a 'mare, being multiple hinges on a curved surface, and having to be pretty chunky to prevent the "doors being blown off" /MichaelCain when they operate)
max , are those like vestal virgins , but they come from another planet? wink

Tyre Tread

10,535 posts

217 months

Sunday 11th January 2015
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Max_Torque said:
I assume it's to enable the team to trial fit and "align" (with a big hammer??) the hinges for said doors, before the "real" doors are available, which are probably milled by hand trained royal blood hamsters out of the worlds finest unobtainium and then bathed in the milk of 1000 Oxen for 100 days before being polished to a shine by 24 vessel virgins. or something like that.... ;-)


(hinges must be a bit of a 'mare, being multiple hinges on a curved surface, and having to be pretty chunky to prevent the "doors being blown off" /MichaelCain when they operate)
Did you mean vestal virgins?

anonymous-user

55 months

Sunday 11th January 2015
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ivanhoew said:
Max_Torque said:
I assume it's to enable the team to trial fit and "align" (with a big hammer??) the hinges for said doors, before the "real" doors are available, which are probably milled by hand trained royal blood hamsters out of the worlds finest unobtainium and then bathed in the milk of 1000 Oxen for 100 days before being polished to a shine by 24 vessel virgins. or something like that.... ;-)


(hinges must be a bit of a 'mare, being multiple hinges on a curved surface, and having to be pretty chunky to prevent the "doors being blown off" /MichaelCain when they operate)
max , are those like vestal virgins , but they come from another planet? wink
I'd like to blame autocorrect.


















I'd like too, but i can't. My fault i'm afraid ;-)

IN51GHT

Original Poster:

8,782 posts

211 months

Tuesday 20th January 2015
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Body of the new HTP Pump was delivered this morning.








E24man

6,727 posts

180 months

Tuesday 20th January 2015
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Shades of 'Alien' on that external ribbed finish.

Love it smile

anonymous-user

55 months

Tuesday 20th January 2015
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I assume the pump body is also stainless steel, it just looks a lot like Ally in the pics?

IN51GHT

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8,782 posts

211 months

Tuesday 20th January 2015
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Max_Torque said:
I assume the pump body is also stainless steel, it just looks a lot like Ally in the pics?
It's aluminium 6061 in T6 condition

yorkieboy

1,845 posts

176 months

Tuesday 20th January 2015
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So would the air brake doors be up for sale then?

IN51GHT

Original Poster:

8,782 posts

211 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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Fin assy fixture is being populated, bare in mind the fixture is over eight feet tall.




Blib

44,183 posts

198 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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That fin doesn't look right........



wink

Asterix

24,438 posts

229 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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Blib said:
That fin doesn't look right........



wink
hehe

gifdy

2,073 posts

242 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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IN51GHT said:
Fin assy fixture is being populated, bare in mind the fixture is over eight feet tall.

Just as well you had the jig marked up with it's name. You wouldn't want to put it away in a drawer and then forget what it was for wink

anonymous-user

55 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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IN51GHT said:
Max_Torque said:
I assume the pump body is also stainless steel, it just looks a lot like Ally in the pics?
It's aluminium 6061 in T6 condition
Will the "self" oxide layer be enough to protect it from the HTHP or is it getting coated in something??

IN51GHT

Original Poster:

8,782 posts

211 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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Max_Torque said:
Will the "self" oxide layer be enough to protect it from the HTHP or is it getting coated in something??
6061 is one of the best aluminiums for compatibility, no additional coating required.

Mules

72 posts

148 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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Thought ya'll might like to see a 650mph desert comms test we conducted last autumn: http://youtu.be/9ocGJyso1-o

k-ink

9,070 posts

180 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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Radio waves travel at the speed of light so I highly doubt the radio transmitters give a rats backside whether a car is doing 10mph or 1000mph. Seems more like a daft Jaguar PR stunt than any remotely useful test. That said, I'm sure you had a fun day out!

gifdy

2,073 posts

242 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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k-ink said:
Radio waves travel at the speed of light so I highly doubt the radio transmitters give a rats backside whether a car is doing 10mph or 1000mph. Seems more like a daft Jaguar PR stunt than any remotely useful test. That said, I'm sure you had a fun day out!
The transmitters wouldn't care but the receivers certainly do. Cheaper ways to test it though !

Silverbullet767

10,712 posts

207 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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IN51GHT said:
Body of the new HTP Pump was delivered this morning.
Pure milled porn! smile

bobfett

144 posts

118 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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k-ink said:
Radio waves travel at the speed of light so I highly doubt the radio transmitters give a rats backside whether a car is doing 10mph or 1000mph. Seems more like a daft Jaguar PR stunt than any remotely useful test. That said, I'm sure you had a fun day out!
Doppler shift over 1000mph is a potential problem that immediately comes to mind, and not being a specialist in this sort of thing, I suspect there are other complications.

However, I would imagine that there was at least a bit of PR involved. TBH, that's exactly the sort of thing I like about this sort of project.

Edit: What Gifdy said then.

Edited by bobfett on Friday 23 January 10:25

IN51GHT

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8,782 posts

211 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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Fairly large air tank delivered today, this will enable us to spin the EJ200 up using the AMAD/Airstart car system.