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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: Melvang on Thu, 03 April 2014, 14:58:36
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For those of you that wonder why I would want to build a keyboard case out of half inch plate, I just want to put it into perspective with what I do at work.
Today I had to do a shaft alignment between theotor and the pump on an air compressor. The alignment was damn near perfect when I finished. Offset missalignmet was within .0002" vertically and .0005" horizontally. The angular miss alignment was within .0017" vertically and .0000" horizontally. Here is a picture of the placard from the side of the motor.
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I would love to have a metal case as long as I could carry it without getting a hernia. My naked stealth F has a handle that is good.
Raw metal would look supremely bad-ass to boot.
By "plate" do you mean steel? Obviously titanium would be the best all-around, and copper would be scary wicked steampunk, but aluminum would be plenty adequate for the proletariat.
Realistically, at about 8.25 pounds, my F-122 is about as heavy as a keyboard needs to be. Somewhere around triple that weight and it would start getting obnoxious and unnecessarily cumbersome.
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Obviously titanium would be the best all-around
i prefer iridium, thank you.
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Obviously inconel would be the best all-around
Fixed that for you :P
Raw metal would look supremely bad-ass to boot.
By "plate" do you mean steel?
Should be a steel plate. And I agree, I always liked the look of raw metal.
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wow
that motor is 4 metric tons. Then I checked the power requirements: 2300V at over 300A! That's intense!
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Tungsten carbide cases and plates FTW.
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wow
that motor is 4 metric tons. Then I checked the power requirements: 2300V at over 300A! That's intense!
Just think I have set motors that were only 1,000 hp that were lower RPM but drew more power and weight much more. But those were built back in the '40s and '50s.
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magnesium is nice stuff
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magnesium is nice stuff
I love lighting it on fire.