I have seen the extruded Al launch rails, the square ones shaped like an x for use with rod buttons. Is this an extrusion that is available for uses other than launching rockets? or something that is made up just for the rocket community.
if thats not a testimonial for the system, i dont know what is. What kind of lab do you work in and what do you do if you dont mind my asking?I designed it to be transportable via truck or airplane and required extremely stable framework to maintain optical alignment of the high power pulsed CO2 laser to the vacuum chamber. It was transported 550 miles by Yellow Freight from my lab, rolled of the truck to our customer at UPITT, connected to a 208 volt, 30 amp 3-phase power line, a standard lab compressed air line, a cooling water line, and an UHP oxygen tank, and was operational without any optical adjustments of the high power CO2 laser and beam director in less than an hour after pumping down to 10-13 atmosphere!
I am a principal scientist at Physical Sciences Inc., a small, employee-owned R&D company with ~140 employees headquartered in Andover, MA. We're somewhat unique in that we can work on any type of interdisciplinary technical problem provided we can find a funding source to solve it.Thanks for the replies, Im going to have to get a bunch of the T slot extrusions, It seems like a great prototyping quick assembly option for building all kinds of things.
if thats not a testimonial for the system, i dont know what is. What kind of lab do you work in and what do you do if you dont mind my asking?
They are standard aluminum T-slot extrusions used world-wide for industrial framing applications in both inch and metric dimensions.
Metric sizes include 10mm x 10 mm aka "MakerBeam", 15 mm x 15 mm aka "OpenBeam", 20 mm x 20 mm aka mini rail using M5 screws, and 25 mm x 25 mm using 6 mm rail buttons.
Some clubs have some of these rails. All of these rails are stiffer then 1/4" rods so they are gaining favor in some clubs but are by no means universally used.
American sizes include 1" x 1" aka 1010 rail (the "standard" launch rail using 1/4" rail buttons) and 1.5" x 1.5" aka 1515 rail (the "large" launch rail using 5/16" rail buttons).
Most clubs have 1010 and 1515 rails for their high power pads.
Bob
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