On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:17:50 +0900, Stealth Pilot
wrote:

On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:30:33 -0700, Too_Many_Tools
wrote:

Thought you might enjoy reading this...I did.

I wish them the best of luck.



How exactly does one assemble a space station saving cufflink from
spare parts? Very carefully, as appears to be the case in the seven-
part instructions that were uplinked to the astronauts, complete with
illustrations for key steps.

SPACE.com's live coverage of the spacewalk begins Saturday morning at
5:00 a.m. EDT (0900 GMT).


I wonder if you'd ever get a Sherline or similar putting a mini lathe
and mini mill on the space station for those odd off duty moments :-)
and for brewing up little repairs?

think of the bragging rights :-) NASA saves the day with a Taig lathe
:-)

gotta be potential there.

Stealth Pilot

Might call for some inventive ways to capture swarf. Can you imagine
the havoc if a bunch of conductive stuff was floating around in zero
gravity?