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Originally Posted by KillerBMotorsport
The epoxy is wicked expensive aerospace stuff that is very specific to this type of application. If I were to bet on what was going to fail, I would have expected the carbon fiber tubes to give first.
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I think you're overspending there, but when you need good stuff, aerospace specs don't let you down in quality control.
Our solar stuff let us down constantly. It was early in start up doing development though, in a half billion dollar factory. $10K failures were pretty common in the first year or two. Epoxy would fail and send a 65 pound ingot into a two foot diameter drum and waste it on a multimillion dollar tool, at 15m/s. Epoxy giving me flashbacks, don't mean to hijack the thread, just enjoy the trials and tribulations of engineering a product to market. It takes so much so many never even fathom.
It's been enough time that I can discuss this again, legally and all. Development is fun, I really do enjoy it. I've spent half my career in failure analysis of semiconductors, the other half making crappy equipment produce decent results for said semiconductors.