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Post by the light works on Jun 29, 2019 3:19:12 GMT
True yes, but more mass to push using those rocket motors over wet soggy sand, the intended terrain that they would have been used in during D-Day. But perhaps if anyone has Adams Twitter feed they could ask about the weight issue. to be clear, I was thinking a slower delivery would be more controllable.
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Post by WhutScreenName on Jul 6, 2019 13:43:18 GMT
It's turning into an interesting series. I've watched 3, and am currently watching the King Arthur sword one now. Mad Max was a fun episode
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Post by the light works on Jul 6, 2019 14:15:48 GMT
It's turning into an interesting series. I've watched 3, and am currently watching the King Arthur sword one now. Mad Max was a fun episode I was amused by the final result of the mad max one. - also a bit saddened by the spoiler omitted
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Post by the light works on Jul 8, 2019 1:57:42 GMT
on the excalibur build, I might call attention to the fact that bronze age cultures didntt have tool steel to work their asteroid iron into.
on the other hand, they fired their forges with carbon rich fuels.
wonder what difference that would make.
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Post by WhutScreenName on Jul 8, 2019 16:41:45 GMT
on the excalibur build, I might call attention to the fact that bronze age cultures didntt have tool steel to work their asteroid iron into. on the other hand, they fired their forges with carbon rich fuels. wonder what difference that would make. That's a good question. Overall, I enjoyed that particular episode the most so far. And the finished sword was beautiful.
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Post by the light works on Jul 8, 2019 17:41:38 GMT
on the excalibur build, I might call attention to the fact that bronze age cultures didntt have tool steel to work their asteroid iron into. on the other hand, they fired their forges with carbon rich fuels. wonder what difference that would make. That's a good question. Overall, I enjoyed that particular episode the most so far. And the finished sword was beautiful. I disagree with a few finer points of the selected expert's sword training, but that is probably to be expected when different people favor different forms. his form was a lot more flourish-y than how I learned - and I was definitely taught to add wrist to the strike. that's where your tip speed comes from.
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Post by ironhold on Jul 8, 2019 17:42:29 GMT
I'm not getting into this one as much as the other shows.
Has modern technology has advanced enough to replicate something from science fiction? Good question to ask.
Can we figure out what went wrong with a WWII prototype and resolve the issue? Ditto.
But the "Mad Max" episode felt more like the usual nonce Discovery has been pushing out instead of proper educational material, and while the Excalibur episode was looking to test the effectiveness of weapons made with meteoric alloys I found myself fast-forwarding through about half of it.
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Post by the light works on Jul 8, 2019 17:53:30 GMT
speaking of which, I did do a bit of rudimentary testing with an empty wire spool, and yes, that shape does have some inherent stability problems.
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Post by WhutScreenName on Jul 8, 2019 19:10:36 GMT
When it came to the Panjandrum rebuild, I was surprised they went with the flywheel system needing an external motor to spin up. To me, something like a Helical Torsion Spring (Think of a pullback, wind up car) would have been more reliable and safer.
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Post by the light works on Jul 8, 2019 20:50:52 GMT
When it came to the Panjandrum rebuild, I was surprised they went with the flywheel system needing an external motor to spin up. To me, something like a Helical Torsion Spring (Think of a pullback, wind up car) would have been more reliable and safer. would you then have had an eccentric weight to convert the spring into motive force? a windup spring and a tail might have been a more effective means of propulsion. or a small petrol motor and a tail. my thinking is that the biggest problem with the machine is that it becomes more unstable, the faster it goes.
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Post by mrfatso on Jul 9, 2019 11:41:34 GMT
on the excalibur build, I might call attention to the fact that bronze age cultures didntt have tool steel to work their asteroid iron into. on the other hand, they fired their forges with carbon rich fuels. wonder what difference that would make. Bronze Age culture? The King Arthur myth is firmly rooted in the post-Roman era of the early medieval period. I guess I'll have to wait until Wednesday to,each the show and see what Adams reasoning behind that is.
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Post by the light works on Jul 9, 2019 13:55:07 GMT
on the excalibur build, I might call attention to the fact that bronze age cultures didntt have tool steel to work their asteroid iron into. on the other hand, they fired their forges with carbon rich fuels. wonder what difference that would make. Bronze Age culture? The King Arthur myth is firmly rooted in the post-Roman era of the early medieval period. I guess I'll have to wait until Wednesday to,each the show and see what Adams reasoning behind that is. sorry. the episode mentioned finding an egyptian pharoah with a meteorite iron dagger.
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Post by mrfatso on Jul 9, 2019 16:05:42 GMT
Bronze Age culture? The King Arthur myth is firmly rooted in the post-Roman era of the early medieval period. I guess I'll have to wait until Wednesday to,each the show and see what Adams reasoning behind that is. sorry. the episode mentioned finding an egyptian pharoah with a meteorite iron dagger. Well that explains the Bronze Age bit. But where it comes into,Excalibur ....possibly a stretch.
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Post by the light works on Jul 9, 2019 16:28:38 GMT
sorry. the episode mentioned finding an egyptian pharoah with a meteorite iron dagger. Well that explains the Bronze Age bit. But where it comes into,Excalibur ....possibly a stretch. there isn't that much connection between meteorite sword legends and excalibur legends. but if you want to do a meteorite sword, you might as well do excalibur.
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Post by the light works on Jul 13, 2019 22:11:29 GMT
Nitroglycerin: this was a great episode, and while it did leave one of my questions unanswered, it did give a really good picture of why nitro has such a reputation as a problem child. I do have to give it a critical mark for when Adam lost his head and failed to take note of it. step up your quip game, there, adam.
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Post by WhutScreenName on Jul 15, 2019 14:38:22 GMT
Nitroglycerin: this was a great episode, and while it did leave one of my questions unanswered, it did give a really good picture of why nitro has such a reputation as a problem child. I do have to give it a critical mark for when Adam lost his head and failed to take note of it. step up your quip game, there, adam. This was the most MB episode yet, just without Jamie. The set up was the same, the testing was the same, the whole episode played out like an episode of MB.
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Post by the light works on Jul 21, 2019 13:58:42 GMT
the ZF-1 (from the fifth element)
roughly 45 minutes of continuous gleefulness
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Post by WhutScreenName on Jul 26, 2019 15:21:38 GMT
The ZF-2, I wish he had tried more variants to get the ice cube portion to work. Sure, it had the same billow as the movie, and sure, it had a good effect at the end knocking over the guy, but it wasn't really the same thing. Everything else was a real life version, except that....
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Post by the light works on Jul 26, 2019 15:38:39 GMT
The ZF-2, I wish he had tried more variants to get the ice cube portion to work. Sure, it had the same billow as the movie, and sure, it had a good effect at the end knocking over the guy, but it wasn't really the same thing. Everything else was a real life version, except that.... yes, it would have been nice to get that more effective. I also would have used booster motors for the rocket launcher instead of main motors - boosters don't have the coast delay so the target wouldn't have time to pull the rocket out and throw it away. as long as he was using the fire extinguisher for his CO2 supply, I would have used it to power the arrow launcher as well. that would eliminate a compressed air tank. - and maybe used it instead of a pump to pressurize the flamethrower system - done right, it could extinguish the nozzle fire, too. but of course we have the luxury that he has done the development work, and we can toss out ideas to refine it.
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Post by WhutScreenName on Jul 26, 2019 15:44:55 GMT
Sounds to me like a revisit is in order
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