That's the way it appeared in the documentary, it caught my eye and I had to rewind as it looked totally out of place to me. Like someone just piled up random debris and tossed some more stuff onto it for a photo.
Yep, we put those covers on flange fittings to protect them during shipment and to keep animals and bugs from nesting in them when they're stored outside. That valve has never been installed and it is the type I put in chemical plants and refineries, not used in a jet plane. I'm sure it's been noticed before long ago but my first time seeing this scene and it popped out to me right away as it falls under my area of expertise.
Yeah we don't make those out of aluminum (too soft and can't handle high pressures), they're usually carbon steel painted for corrosion resistance and we only using stainless or other alloys if handling corrosive fluids or needing to handle temperatures below -40C (and we don't paint those).
Also those covers are friction-fit, no way they wouldn't pop off during the impact of a plane crash had it actually been on the plane.
Also I wish the flange protectors we used were nearly that sturdy.
Why is the image cropped like this and not showing the whole plane wreckage?
That's the way it appeared in the documentary, it caught my eye and I had to rewind as it looked totally out of place to me. Like someone just piled up random debris and tossed some more stuff onto it for a photo.
The blue plastic? I see no damage to it. Does not fit, neither does the rheostat on the right.
Yep, we put those covers on flange fittings to protect them during shipment and to keep animals and bugs from nesting in them when they're stored outside. That valve has never been installed and it is the type I put in chemical plants and refineries, not used in a jet plane. I'm sure it's been noticed before long ago but my first time seeing this scene and it popped out to me right away as it falls under my area of expertise.
Material looks to be good stainless not aluminum also.
Thank you!
What is the picture of? What plane?
Material looks to be good stainless not aluminum also. It looks bead blasted. having problem posting for some reason.
Yeah we don't make those out of aluminum (too soft and can't handle high pressures), they're usually carbon steel painted for corrosion resistance and we only using stainless or other alloys if handling corrosive fluids or needing to handle temperatures below -40C (and we don't paint those).
Also those covers are friction-fit, no way they wouldn't pop off during the impact of a plane crash had it actually been on the plane.
Looks like bead blasted Stainless to me. Nuke plant parts?
rheostat on right looks like it has electrical schematic on it. If we could enhance the pic we could ID it.
the face is also a heat sink as far as I can tell.