Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Why Can't we Remake the Rocketdyne F1 Engine?" video.

@nightedpemder4992 "don't know how they did it" - We have educated guesses, but we can't afford to try all variations to figure out which one works the best/is the safest. It would not be worth it to spend millions trying to replicate every part... when we could just make a modern engine.
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Yeah but after spending millions chasing that dragon and billions tooling up to make them... you'd be better off just designing a modern engine.
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@jellomaster5629 lmao
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"if you have enough of the specs you can build it" - If the pieces in the specs had to be built through processes nobody uses anymore... Why would you want to build it?
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"Instead the engineers at Nasa" - no, tradesmen employed by private sector entities contracted to make parts.
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Making a new design is easier than going back to an older one. Nothing BS about that.
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No. It's just not worth the time and money investment to lay out thousands of parts, try to do all the iterative steps to figure out which manufacturing process works the best, and repeat that process for every single part when you can just create a modern design that uses less parts and is manufactured through modern processes and with modern materials. If you're willing to pay for it, you can hire a team of engineers and they'll be able to do this useless job. But it's going to cost you millions.
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@Jan_Strzelecki We know what works. We just don't know which outdated process was used to manufacture what outdated part, and figuring it out is a useless endeavor considering we can just use modern designs, modern processes and modern materials rather than doing mind-numbing work for no justifiable reason.
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3d printing has problems of it's own. And so does scanning, if you have blueprints you essentially have the ability to do the CAD models by hand, it will take less time than clearing up a scan.
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