On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:11:39 -0700, "anorton"
wrote:


"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:14:13 -0400, lid wrote:

Holy smokes.....look at the fixturing they are machining this new
rocket capsule on!! Pretty complicated piece of work all by itself.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c30_1316016946

And then check out the size of the milling bed. The mill head runs on
the tracks in the pit gehind these guys and they are walking around on
the mill bed.
Dave

Thats not fixturing per say...that appears to be the actual space craft
and they are machining parts..already attached...so they fit.
Trimming and fitting. Which I find exceptionally disturbing...as all
that sort of stuff should have been properly done long before they ever
started assembling the beasty.
Allthough..on the other hand...it isnt all that bad an idea, if its a
prototype and they are "modeling" or using the Soviet Method of
construction. Its just not something I would have associated with NASA.


Gunner

Huh? Huge steel gusseted box beams, large handcranks, circular
re-circulating ball guides. No, its a fixture. Check out the scene starting
at frame 3:50. It is very clear the "part" is just the conical section of
plate and everything else is holding it.

Hummm...I had assumed that the box beams etc etc were the fixture used
to machine the already assembled parts

Ill go with your answer as I really wouldnt like to think it was
assembled via Soviet methods

Though to be fair...they were pretty good at that sort of thing......


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