T5 Sophont List Donald McKinney (12 Aug 2014 01:03 UTC)
Fogbank Kurt Feltenberger (12 Aug 2014 12:21 UTC)
Re: [TML] Fogbank Bruce Johnson (12 Aug 2014 14:29 UTC)
Re: [TML] Fogbank Phil Pugliese (12 Aug 2014 16:00 UTC)
Re: [TML] Fogbank Bruce Johnson (12 Aug 2014 16:14 UTC)
Re: [TML] Fogbank Jeffrey Schwartz (12 Aug 2014 16:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] Fogbank Phil Pugliese (12 Aug 2014 18:20 UTC)
Re: [TML] Fogbank shadow@xxxxxx (12 Aug 2014 16:29 UTC)
Re: [TML] Fogbank Bruce Johnson (12 Aug 2014 17:25 UTC)
Re: [TML] Fogbank Bruce Johnson (12 Aug 2014 17:34 UTC)
Re: [TML] Fogbank Jeffrey Schwartz (12 Aug 2014 19:10 UTC)
Re: [TML] Fogbank David Shaw (12 Aug 2014 18:41 UTC)
Re: [TML] Fogbank Bruce Johnson (12 Aug 2014 20:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] Fogbank Richard Aiken (13 Aug 2014 08:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] Fogbank Bruce Johnson (12 Aug 2014 14:57 UTC)

Re: [TML] Fogbank Bruce Johnson 12 Aug 2014 17:25 UTC

On Aug 12, 2014, at 9:28 AM, <xxxxxx@shadowgard.com> <xxxxxx@shadowgard.com> wrote:

> "Everyone knew" (on the US team) that you tightened the bolts really,
> *really* tight so as to prevent leaks if the tube got justled around.
>
> The extra torquing changed the shape of the resonant cavity *just
> enough* for the tube to work...
>
> If you are a closed group and *not* sharing your processes with
> outsiders, you may never realize that you are leaving out critical
> steps. Because "everybody knows”.

This is less of an “everybody knows” thing than they accidentally got it to work. (and 'Torque the bolts to NNN ft-lbs' should damned well have been in the docs!).

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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