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Originally Posted by jeepmor
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.
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What were you making? Why were 65 pound ingots suspended ~11.5 meters (Did I do that back of the envelope math right? 15m/s final speed divided by 9.8m/s/s gives the time it fell; multiply by that by an average speed of 7.5m/s to find the distance.) above two foot diameter drums and how did that waste a multimillion dollar tool?