I can't believe I've never thought of this. At this link:
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The artist says to use salt in copper tube when bending to keep from
kinking. I've done the sand trick and it works. Got that one from
"Flight of the Phoenix" when I saw it in a theater when it first came
out years and years ago. But sand and salt should work the same and
salt is easier to get completely out.
Cheers,
Eric R Snow
Eric R Snow wrote in article
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Melting temperature of salt - approx 1600°F
Melting point of steel - approx. 2700°F
Be careful if you heat the tube.
Salt also melts in water - sand doesn't.
Another useful material is brown sugar. It packs well, can be removed
with hot water. I learned of this from guys who develop fuzes for
artillery rounds. They'd pack and tamp the elex in brown sugar, send
it up to the proving grounds to be assembled to a 155mm round and
given a ride. (No HE in these rounds, of course.) After firing,
they'd retrieve it (don't know how), send back the fuze for
post-firing analysis. Soaking in hot water for a while completely
removed the brown sugar without disturbing anything.
The environment in an artillery round is somewhat hectic. Shock, of
course, and the G forces from spin are mind-boggling. It'd rip the
wirebonds off the silicon dice in hermetically-packaged "MIL" parts,
while industrial epoxy-encapsulated parts survived just fine.
Don, its a small world. My father-in-laws specialty was AP tank ammunition.
Fuzing was a big part of it. Also depleted uranium projectiles as hard as
tool steel. And of course the laser guidance system on board each round. He
got a real kick out of all the field testing in Gulf war one.
Karl
That reminds me...a gent I talked to today said that LVDTs may be an
option for determining muzzle direction.
He MAY know what he is talking about...
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Gunner
"If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats then I need a third
hand.There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my gun while they're
around."
"Democrat. In the dictionary it's right after demobilize and right
before demode` (out of fashion).
-Buddy Jordan 2001
LVDT's are precise displacement sensors capable of very high
resolution -- but they are not wideband sensors. 20 KHz would be a
fast LVDT. Beyond that, LVDT's are pricey!
We're more interested in measuring expansion of the barrel at the
muzzle -- strain.
I was refering to the direction the muzzle was in, during the fireing
sequence. Putting a ring of 6 around the muzzle could get you a data
picture of end of muzzle displacement from the moment the sear slipped
to the instant the bullet left the end of the barrel.
Gunner
"If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats then I need a third
hand.There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my gun while they're
around."
"Democrat. In the dictionary it's right after demobilize and right
before demode` (out of fashion).
-Buddy Jordan 2001
I do too. 20 KHz seems to be about as fast as they get. Further, in
order to use displacement sensors the rifle would have to be clamped
down tight -- which is not the situation when one is actually
shooting. Rigid clamping could change the dynamics.
There is evidence that there are quiet periods when the muzzle isn't
moving much, and other periods when things at the muzzle are
relatively chaotic. We're thinking that a circumferential straingage
at the muzzle will tell us when those quiet periods are with a given
barrel, bullet and load, so the load can be adjusted to have bullet
exit coincide with a quiet period. We didn't invent this, another
guy has done it with good results, and good corellation between group
size and time of bullet exit. But he didn't do it with Fitch's
rifles!
I wonder how much of this data is available already from Aberdeen?
Gunner
"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them;
the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."
- Proverbs 22:3
LVDT's are linear variable differential transformers. The output is AC
voltage of the same frequency as is put in. After you demod the
voltage, the frequency response would be lower than the AC frequency.
So they are a relatively slow sensor. Typically the AC frequency might
be 800 Hz, so the response would be about 2 milliseconds.
Dan
[snip]
What might work OK are accelerometers made with PVDF film and masses
made of mild steel (metal content), and glued to the barrel near the
muzzle.
I imagine they have tons of data. But not in electronic form, and not
necessarily releasable to the public.
Joe Gwinn
LOL...everything from 3040 Krag to 16" guns
Gunner
"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them;
the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."
- Proverbs 22:3
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