Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "H I Sutton" channel.

Actually, the real reason was that the Soviets//Russians started selling their titanium to the West. Yup. America's cost of production was far too high for the consumer market. It took the Soviets to turn titanium metal into a semi-commodity. BTW, the traditional solution for non-magnetic tooling has ALWAYS been brass and bronze. You can buy an entire suite of such tools right now. They've always been in production. Their 'hang-up' is COST. Their chronic market: electricians and the oil & gas industry -- and chemical industry. And yes, titanium tools are now in mass production -- kind of. You can buy framing hammers in titanium. They just cost a pretty penny. Owners just love them to death -- but they are theft prone. (They swing differently than steel and their heads never deform under intense use... and they are light on the tool belt. Most framing is done via pneumatic nailers, so belt-weight matters a lot.)
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@michaelcorbidge7914 The lighter mass is compensated for by it being swung faster. And yes, those pesky nails do go in. The bulk of modern hammering is by pneumatics, so the framer reaches for his manual hammer only to pound down those very rare miss-sets. The lighter weight on the belt is greatly desired -- as the pneumatic, typically Hitachi, is a beast. I'm not a framer -- I just report what they assert.
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Putin has already run away with his fleet. Sheesh.
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The SR-71 was built out of titanium. So the USA had the skill to craft a flying machine -- and an amazing one at that. The killer with the Soviet war vessel was the astounding amount of titanium required... and the massive welds required. BTW, the titanium was only required for the pressure hull -- which would not have ever been exposed to US NRO satellites. ( Submarines are built under a roof. No-one builds them out in the weather. They are not aircraft carriers. ) The USN only figured out what was up AFTER said submarines were diving way too deep and moving way too fast. Until then, the experts flatly refused to accept that the Soviets had out done the USA... no matter what the intel they were getting said. The same shock occurred with Soviet rocket engines. Russian machines are so advanced that NASA has imported them!
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@clockworkvanhellsing372 At CERN, the tools have to NOT have anything magnetic -- like steel/iron.
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@shaba1982 Dude... the tunnel had long been completed. "...steel tools left in the tunnels...."
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@barneylinet6602 If you can afford them. BeCu alloys are deemed National Defense materials. That's how strongly they are associated with atomic warheads. BeCu is famed for its temperature stability, heat sink capacity, and immunity to magnetic fields. It also machines well. But Be is such a toxic metal that few firms will handle it. It does hold one record in chemistry: Be forms more alloys with other metals than any other element in the periodic table. That's one reason it's so toxic.
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@theendoftheline T.O. You post as if you can't read. Is that your thing?
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@kennethrohen5963 Casinos were more his style.
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@johnjames5842 Framers are its number one market. I only found out about them from framers -- who treated it like it as a prize. Folks, nails in modern construction are driven pneumatically 100% of the time. They are only shipped as 'racked' nails specifically for said pneumatic guns. (Said nails are kind of stuck together. The gun overwhelms the stick-em and runs the nail in. The nail is wrapped in a trick glue that is set to work by the heat and motion of the gun. Hence, pulling such a nail out is a first class &^%$.) Framers only reach for their manual hammer to clean up this or that nail that -- for whatever reason -- failed to reach full depth. If the boss sees any framer driving nails manually, he's walked off the job. No-one can afford such a slow tempo. As for heft, it is MOMENTUM that drives the nails home. Titanium hammer heads hit at a much higher velocity -- as the very same muscle power is used to drive its swing. So the impact energy/momentum is the same. The Big Advantage: titanium is lighter on the belt. And a framer has to wear his hammer all day long, whether he pulls it or not. He is NOT swinging it all day long. That's what happened sixty-years ago, but no longer. Because of the framing code/building code, it's impossible to not use pneumatic nail guns. The glue coated around framing nails will not permit manual driving. No human arm can over come its resistance.
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covid 1234 There is a down-side to diving so deep and moving so fast: you don't dare use your torpedo tubes. (!) Merely the fact that the Soviet/Russian machines can hold out the pressure at such openings was as impressive as anything. Years have rolled by, and by now the Russians have revealed that to shoot any weapon they have to rise to shallower depths. Running ultra deep does confer some strategic advantages -- such a deep vessel is almost impossible to kill -- as long as it remains deep. And with its speed, such a sub can race around the oceans, leaving the USN far behind. The flip side is that -- at speed -- any sub makes so much noise that it can be detected by aircraft dropping sonobuoys. Meaning that it can't 'escape' -- but the USN can't do anything about it, either. Anyway you figure it, titanium pressure hulls made for a very expensive vessel. In NATO parlance they were termed Alfas//Alphas (from the Greek letter) -- a term of respect. The USN figured that nothing short of an atomic bomb was required to kill one. To stop NATO from learning more about them, to train against them, the Soviets kept them in reserve, in port, almost all of the time. This gambit shows just what a war-critical machine it was. (In doing so the Soviets were pre-peating the USAF's F-22 doctrine. The USA does not permit its premier fighter to commonly roam alien skies where a potential enemy could dope out its character.)
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@Pg4141laika Alfas/Alphas became world famous for being the noisiest subs on planet Earth. With high speed you get massive turbulence -- something easily witnessed at the back end of an aircraft carrier during launch operations. High speed kills stealth, period.
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@Pg4141laika Nope. The louder a sub is, the easier tracking it becomes. Alphas were so loud that one has to figure that mere hydrophones would have sufficed. The true nightmare WRT Alfas: they are impossible to attack when at depth -- at any speed. All ordinary ordnance would pass through its crush depth. Knowing this is why Moscow ever built them in the first place. Electric-drive torpedoes would NEVER catch an Alfa. You'd have to concoct some exotic tiny atomic power plant. BTW, the Russians are still fixated with this military technology... which keeps getting back in the news. I don't 'get it' because Russian ICBMs are sure fire deadly -- and drastically faster than ANY oceanic 'missile.' If such a weapon were used as a first-strike gambit -- all of Russia would be obliterated. This makes the gambit militarily useless. NATO is not going to even spend a dime on a counter-weapon. ICBMs already cover the end-of-the-world scenario. Ultra diving also means that the Alfa is dis-armed. She can't open her torpedo tubes while so deep. Her own ordnance can't tolerate such pressure, either. But... the moment any Alfa rises up to become militarily useful -- NATO will be all over it. No sub will ever be faster than aircraft -- even something so humble as a helicopter.
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