Sturgeon
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Hahahaha I'm role playing as a foundry. -
Imagine working with flat surfaces.
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COMPETITION Steel Chariot of The Prairie: The Lone Free State's First Battle Tank (2247)
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Starting to look like a real hull:
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COMPETITION Steel Chariot of The Prairie: The Lone Free State's First Battle Tank (2247)
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As a USC man myself, I understand.
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So something specific to firearms engineers is that being "bi-lingual" is a must. So, for example, my documents are all set on metric. But every dimension is conceived in inches. Fortunately, Solidworks provides for this, so I end up typing "in" a lot.
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I thought it was the inch was defined in millimeters.
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I'm doing all my work in metric and submitting in inches because I'm deranged.
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Quintuple power posting: This competition does have a "gimmick" btw. It's not secret, it's built into the spec you've already seen. It might be fun for you guys to guess what it is!
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The Cali comp was just this huge learning experience for the showrunners. We learned the wrong lessons from the Cascadian competition, specifically that our members could handle a lot more than we were throwing at them. It's honestly a testament to everybody here that you even tried to meet the challenge of the Cali comp. Throwing in deliberate, planned requirements changes mid-stream was just... Cruel. We'll probably use that gimmick again, but definitely not with a competition as rigorous as that one.
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For the record, no we are not doing that this time. Not deliberately, anyway.
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Yep, what you don't know is the "gimmick" of the California comp was from the get-go to pull the rug out from everyone. All those requirements changes were planned ahead of time. Really.
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Real quick I just want to say something regarding all the strange last-minute rules clarifications and de-facto requirements additions. This competition was originally considered less than a mini-comp. The Texas truck competition collapsed so badly that I didn't think it would garner any interest again, but me and another member wanted to try our hands at an MBT anyway. Once I opened it to everyone, interest exploded, and the OP was now under a lot more scrutiny and force of creativity than I expected. (Now, having said that, I am very proud of the specification I laid down as I think it strik
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We've already got guys working on segmented rods. I wouldn't dream of pulling the rug out from under them at the last minute! (Yes segmented rods are ok).
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Uh also please note 15:1 LD applies to both solid steel and composite penetrators. For those of you thinking you'll get a 21:1 LD penetrator by gluing a 6:1 tungsten penetrator to a 15:1 steel penetrator. The reasoning here is seriously stop trying to cheat that the bonding capabilities of Texan engineers are not any better in terms of integrity under high g than the solid materials themselves.
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M1 steel is fine, I explicitly recommended it on the discord. Shall we say, tungsten content no higher than 20%?
