[Milsurplus] Design for a cheap 400Hz power supply

J. Forster [email protected]
Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:25:50 -0400


mikea wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 03:30:16PM -0400, J. Forster wrote:
> > Gregory W. Moore wrote:
>
> >       I saw $55,000,000 in taxpayer money and  three years of my work go poof
> because of some wrong paint.
>
> So Tell The Story. With a teaser like _that_, you can't just clam up on the rest of
> us!
>
> Wrong paint. 55 Megabucks. Wondermous.

The paint shrunk too much as it dried and distorted the shroud, so the pyro pin puller
was not able to unlatch the shroud halves, No shroud sep, no sequence timer start, no
upper stage ignition. BIG SPLASH, downrange. :=(((

-J

>
>
> As bad as the dip who dropped a gyro, brinelling the bearings, didn't fess up, so
> that it got put in a bird. Which flew sky-west
> and crooked. Not a man-rated bird, thank @PANTHEON.
>
> --
> Mike Andrews
> [email protected]
> Tired old sysadmin since 1964
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