Burning a NeXTCube (1993)

Post by anyfoo » Tue, Jan 31, 2023, 7:05 PM UTC

low_tech_love wrote: post #61

kergonath wrote: post #32

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I don’t know about Fraunhofer but my experience in other European countries (mainly the UK, France and Italy) is that you just need to be nice with someone with access to the facilities you need. Unless you need something very specific (read dangerous), there is no problem. We don’t let visitors play with the instruments or anything, but we’re happy to do it for them if we have the right gear and our schedule permits…

Great to know your experience! Maybe I’m in the wrong country, but my experience here is that nobody will lift a finger for you unless (a) it is part of their previuosly allocated workload and (b) it is risk-free. By risk-free I mean really risk free; even wrongly spending 10 euro in a ham sandwich could get you fired and in legal trouble. Plus, just getting people to spend a few minutes to talk to you (if it’s not t…

Post by rodgerd » Thu, Feb 02, 2023, 1:38 AM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #55

zabzonk wrote: post #21

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_RA302 for those interested. the article seems to say it was mg skinned, which would make it even more combustible, as the skin would be thin magnesium is far from being easily machinable, so a chassis/airframe/cube made out of the pure metal is unlikely

You really don't want to use pure magnesium anywhere you can avoid it. But alloys are perfectly safe and are even permitted for airplane cabin construction. It's quite ok to machine, though it tears easily so you have to be careful on your final pass not to accidentally remove much more material than you intend to. And if it is pure magnesium you'll want to be pretty careful about your cutting speeds and coolant ;) T…