On 10/13/2011 04:34 PM, Charles wrote:
Or find a way to design around it. For example, maybe what you need could be handled with a length of tube somebody could cut and you could make end caps to weld in. (I know that probably isn't a solution in your case, but making a fabrication of more manageable parts is sometimes a solution.)
A practical example of this is the solid fuel boosters used on the Space
Shuttle. The original design had them made as one piece, but the lowest
bidder was on the other side of the country and the only way to get them
to Florida was to make them in pieces and assemble them later. If
someone else near a major waterway had been the lowest bidder, we
wouldn't have had the Challenger Disaster.
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