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Old 09-10-2015, 09:45 PM   #6
Hog1
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Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?

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Originally Posted by Buffalo Bob View Post
Believe it or not they are still maintaining and using some items from WWII.
I no longer do it but from 2009-2011 I did some direct government contracting. It was usually small replacement parts, all parts had names and part numbers but many times it didn't say what they went on. I received
a lot of blueprints that had dates on them with the last revisions being in the
1940's with the materials and processes used long obsolete. (Of course you then just used the modern equivalent or better) I did see some that were
missile parts with dates from the 60's. Never been in the military but I am
pretty sure we still have old missiles siting in silos pointed all over the place.
Somebody just gives them a once over and replaces anything that degraded
over time and makes it good as new. We landed on the moon in 1969 so I
am sure a lot of that 50 year old technology is good enough in a lot of situations.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mili...uipD03POxaA%3D
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