On Fri, 01 Nov 2002 23:37:32 -0600, John Carmack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > I'm under the same impression. Why Armadillo is having this problem, >> > and ERPS isn't, when we're using very similar equipment, is a bit of a >> > mystery. It must be warmer in California than it is in Texas. >> >>My humble opinion is that some of the refinements in cat pack >>construction (baffle rings etc) that ERPS has used to try to >>coax activity out of cermet pellets under adverse circumstance >>(such as undiagnosed contamination from stabilizers in the >>propellant) have, when applied to the silver pack we've used for >>KISS, resulted in a fairly well-behaved system. > >On Tuesday, we did several things to improve the situation, but we have >found that our anti-channel rings are not doing a good job at the >moment. Ah! That'll get you. We had severe channeling problems - among many others - when we were testing the cermet with the bad peroxide. Maybe all that troubleshooting we did -wasn't- wasted. :-) -R -- "...And the last thing I remember is asking, 'What could go wrong?'" _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
