Aluminum and it's precursors are used EVERYWHERE! Join me for a ramble void of care whilst re-assembling the Makita Chop Saw.
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Anodes be the carbon ones
You didn't give a shoutout to the Hall–Héroult process. Without that, injection molded aluminum never would have become a thing.
Here's a new one for you… "I smell like a horse. And I haven't even been around a horse!" 😆
You are a veritable mine of knowledge, AvE. Props to ya
I’m saying this for my fellow Americans. He didn’t say f off like it sounds it means you could go it’s cool in this sense. Thank you….that is all…carry on….over..😏❤️🖖🏼🇺🇸
I’ve been to that museum, fun place where you can sift for your own gemstones. At least they did that 10 years ago
not sure if you are a geologist, a metallurgist or a high-school science teacher
Working in a small engine factory, we deal all day with die-cast aluminum. And it's frustrating at times, because like with all casting, Quality Control is PARAMOUNT. Shrinkage Porosity is the biggest thing to worry about. As the aluminum cools it contracts, and sometimes it rips voids into itself while doing this. So you machine down an engine head a lo and behold, a chunk of metal is missing from the surface where the headgasket goes, and the whole head is unusable. Gas Porosity is a also possible, little air bubbles. While this is pretty common, it's amazing that it isn't constant, because like AvE said, die-casting is like an art. And if anything is fucked up about the process, the castings will be fucked up. I've had to send thousands of machined castings back to be torn apart and recycled, because of shrinkage porosity from bad method and bad QC.
I absorbe every word you say. Too much wisdom and knowledge.
What do you think of Tesla's new Mega Casting process, using high-pressure molten aluminium? Apparently the mould is filled in milliseconds to avoid distortion and the need for heat-treatment of the finished casting.
I spent a few years working in bromine plants in El Dorado and Magnolia Arkansas. Nasty stuff.
Today I learned: 1.5W per gram of ferkin' material. And it's a damn right well sodded system.
A Lumina lol
Oh to go back in time. Had I have had you during high school or college, I wouldn’t have chased so many squirrels when I got bored. BRILLIANT!!! I love that word “Chineseium”
I always wondered why it takes so much energy to produce aluminum, and now I know. Cheers AvE.
Dying to GRAB an electron.