[time-nuts] Question for the cesium nuts.

Robert Atkinson robert.atkinson at genetix.com
Mon Mar 19 05:20:49 EDT 2007


Hi Again Hal,
There are standards for de-militarisation, you used to be able to
download manuals on it from the LOGSA web site but they seem to have
closed up that information source :-( I remember a couple of examples,
when they sold Jeeps in the UK for scrap you had to either cut them
diagonally corner to corner through all major components or crush them
completely with a tracked vehicle before they left the site. 
Apparently the local tracked vehicle drivers were usually happy to
oblige. For aircraft the standard was to cut through the fuselage in two
places or through each main wing spar. Allegedly the reason there are so
many F86 Sabre's still flying is that one disposal site cut only the
wings and another cut only the fuselage!

Robert.

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Hal Murray
Sent: 18 March 2007 06:36
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Question for the cesium nuts.


> To pass the hammer blow test, the unit has to still function
> electrically after the blow.  It is OK if it suffers structural damage
> as long as it still works.

That's an interesting corner of the world that I've never worked with.

Is there an official test spec for destroying gear?  :(
Something like how big a bulldozer you have to crush it with.


Google finds references to a barge test, and things like this:
  http://www.aplabs.com/about/newsarchives/bftt.html
  http://www.racksolutions.com/rugged/hammer-test.shtml



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