No, but metallurgy isn’t a straightforward peocess like they were kinda implying. Gears, especially extremely high performance ones like in aerospace, have partial hardening, surface treatments, even exotic things like mixed alloys to ensure they meet the mechanical demands required of them. You can’t simply cast a gear and expect it to work - in this case if you tried as they were describing you’d likely just have the teeth shear when you tried to take off and you’d be fine, but there’s a real good reason that part costs as much as it does and it’s not just the administrative costs that come with aviation part documentation requirements.
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Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 3 days agoThose orphans aren’t orphans any more… Progress.
Real talk I cast turbine blades for IGT and Aerospace (not an engineer, just a floor worker). It was my impression that inside those turbines is an incredibly hostile environment, and still we cast them. We did some single crystal stuff for the really demanding parts. Is cast metal really that flawed?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
It was me kinda implying it. Just making a shit posting comment in a shit post community.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Oh lol, mixed up you and bizarroland.
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
Is fine. Didn’t think I’d TIL on a shitpost comm, but you sent me down a wikihole. Always fun
mkwt@lemmy.world 3 days ago
In some past aerospace work, I’ve seen requirements where, if you do use cast parts, you have to cast extra parts on each lot to use for destructive testing. Specifically to inspect the cross sections for flows or grains or whatever they want to look at.
EchoCranium@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Back maybe 25 years ago I got to tour inside Howmet in Muskegon, MI as part of a class. They did casting of turbine vanes for jet engines. Damned impressive process, and thorough quality checks x-raying every one for flaws. Finding out that each vane has coolant channels cast in was interesting, and a bit unnerving, since they get operated at temperatures above the melting point of the metal! I always think about that when I get on a plane.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Dead orphans are still orphans.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Out of all of the things that you would want to be comfortable with taking risks on, the Jesus Nut on a helicopter is not one of them.
There are no fallbacks if that fails.
The only thing that can save you is a miracle from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, if the Jesus Nut fails on your helicopter while you’re in air.