question regarding header & tuned pipe

[Bill Glaze]

Mr. Byrd is truly the "Prince Of Pork" as has been said.  Now, the
French and Chinese will probably form a consortium and buy them out.<G>
Thanks for updating me on Morton-Thiokol.

Bill Glaze

Gray E Fowler wrote:

>
> ATK company mission: "Take over the world"  They have always been big
> into filament wound rocket motors casings. They just do not make
> propellant, they design and manufacture the entire rocket motor.
> Senator Byrd secured ATK a huge composite facility in poor old W
> Virginia paid for by you and me so there is something to work on in
> WV. Now ATK has a huge robotic tape laying facility in WV paid for by
> the government (Pork Barrelness at work) and they compete with othe
> comapnies that had to buy equipment on their own nickel.
>
> This is a private opinion, not the company I work for.
>
>
>
> Gray Fowler
> Principal Chemical Engineer
> Composites Engineering
>
>
>  "Harry W. Southwell II"
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>
> Hi Bill,
>
>     ATK has a plant about 10-12 miles from were I live. They received
> a contract for composite components on the Delta II,III,IV through
> 2008.
>
> here is a web link to ATK:http://www.atk.com/homepage
>
> Regards
> Bill
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill Glaze
> To: discussion at nsrca.org
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 10:59 AM
> Subject: Re: question regarding header & tuned pipe
>
> Gray:
> Curiosity:  Morton Thiokol supplies not just the rocket propellant,
> (which, we were told many years ago was a derivative of liquid rubber)
> but they also supply the rocket casings?  Interesting.
>
> Bill Glaze
>
> Gray E Fowler wrote:
>
> Tom-had to resend without all the attachments
>
> Morton Thiokol does not make resin, BUT you are on to
> something......Morton Thiokol, now called ATK ,filament winds rocket
> motor casings, and that Shell 8500 is a favorite of filament winder
> guys. Epoxies typically have extremely long shelf lifes. Some
> preformulated epoxies do have consituents that may increase the
> viscosity with age, if not refridgerated. As far as cost goes it is
> all relative. There are expensive epoxies at about $15 lb.  Regular
> epoxy (bisphenol A) is $3 lb when purchased in a 55 gallon drum and
> about twice that by the gallon. High temperature resistance usually
> comes from th echoice of hardener not the epoxy resin.  Epoxy resins
> that can increase temperature (multifunctional) resistance are solids
> at room temperature-not too pattern guy user friendly. Preformulated
> epoxy systems cost 5X-10X the raw material-usually from the hardener
> side. Example-West systems epoxy is a "formulated" hardener , !! that
> is a blend of several components and the epoxy side is packaged
> straight from the drum.
>
>
>
>
>
> Gray Fowler
> Principal Chemical Engineer
> Composites Engineering
>
>
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