Making Metal
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:10 pm
My friend with a modded WRX is a helicopter mechanic.
Over lunch the other day, he used the term "making metal" and wishing to have my intuition confirmed I asked about it.
There are magnets in the engine and tranny with a visual scanner that sends to the instrument panel and if a lot starts to show up its time to find a place to set down.
However, if the bits are big enough such that you can read the parts number you get down --"right now
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Over lunch the other day, he used the term "making metal" and wishing to have my intuition confirmed I asked about it.
There are magnets in the engine and tranny with a visual scanner that sends to the instrument panel and if a lot starts to show up its time to find a place to set down.
However, if the bits are big enough such that you can read the parts number you get down --"right now
". ---