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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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Zero anybody?

Metal doesn't "crystalize". As a Vice President of one materials lab and President of another materials firm I can say so with some authority. Now where there is Silicon in the alloy, local sites will exhibit crystals. The Japanese aluminm in the 30s had only small amounts of measured silicon.
Metal "crystalization" is an old wives tale told by people that aren't in the material sciences.
Sorry to bring this up but since it was mentioned twice I thought I should correct it.
 
Not that I would know anything, but I did run test labs and in my graduate research I did a lot of work with crystal structures. Metals when the cool and form solids form crystals, which is their charcheristic structure, they are not amorphous. By introducing atomic scale impurities aloys are formed which alter the structure and properties. Carbon for a simple instance turns iron into steel.

http://info.lu.farmingdale.edu/depts/met/met205/crystallization.html

A very brief explanation.

On an atomic scale, these structures change along the grain boundries with time, temperture changes and stress accelerating the process.

Anyway, in Japan at the moment, one has to admire the creative energy of the place and the fine engineering and production. Made in japan is no longer a joke! Wish we made a decent camera!

Cheers: T
 
fliger747 said:
Made in japan is no longer a joke! Wish we made a decent camera!

Cheers: T
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Hi Tom,

For someone who collects 1950's and 60's German camera's (Zeiss Ikon, Voigtlander, Kodak Retina) etc.. "Made in Japan" is a joke! :mixedsmi: :running: :monkies:

Cheers,
Craig :)
 
Not to laugh any more! My Digital Canons do better than my classic Hasselblads, though I still have them and do like the feel of using them. Japanese optics have always been good and certainly gave them an advantage in the hard ship to ship fighting in the Solomon Islands. That they rebuilt their industries up from a country that had been leveled and strove and achieved a top ranking as a quality industrial power says much.

Just not pepared to spend as much as a nice car for the new digital Hassy's.

Cold and rainy here in Yokota, I can see why they might have wanted to invade Guam....

Cheers: T
 
Made in China is now the joke. :icon_lol:


On a more relevant note.... with the Pearl Harbor Anniversary coming tommorrow... maybe we could see new pics of the Zero. *hint* *hint* LOL!

:wavey:
 
Our gnomes are deep in gauge work so no pics I'm afraid.
70 years is incredible-and the design still turns heads.
Put 70 years on 1942 and you get 1872. What a difference the advance of technology makes!
 
Where's the like button? :icon_lol:

No worries Baz... just make sure she can turn inside of any American fighter and climb like an angel....


.. we will add flames.
 
bazzar said:
Our gnomes are deep in gauge work so no pics I'm afraid.
70 years is incredible-and the design still turns heads.
Put 70 years on 1942 and you get 1872. What a difference the advance of technology makes!
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Darn.... So.... Maybe there is still the possibility to see one with floats too? Think the Gnomes wont hunt me down for that? :icon29: Ive been scared of gnomes since i was 5 because then i learned the meaning of a lawn dart. :icon_lol:
 
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