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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>
<br>Thanks for updating me on Morton-Thiokol.
<p>Bill Glaze
<p>Gray E Fowler wrote:
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<br><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-1>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.</font></font>
<p><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-1>This is a private opinion, not
the company I work for.</font></font>
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<p><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-1>Gray Fowler</font></font>
<br><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-1>Principal Chemical Engineer</font></font>
<br><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-1>Composites Engineering</font></font>
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<td><b><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-2>"Harry W. Southwell II" <bnbsouthwell@avsia.com></font></font></b>
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<p><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-2>03/26/2003 10:03 AM</font></font>
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<p><font face="Tahoma"><font size=+0>Hi Bill,</font></font>
<p><font face="Tahoma"><font size=+0> 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.</font></font>
<p><font face="Tahoma"><font size=+0>here is a web link to ATK:<u><font color="#0000FF"><a href="http://www.atk.com/homepage">http://www.atk.com/homepage</a></font></u></font></font>
<p><font face="Tahoma"><font size=+0>Regards</font></font>
<br><font face="Tahoma"><font size=+0>Bill</font></font>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size=+0>----- Original Message -----</font></font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman"><font size=+0><b>From:</b> <u><font color="#0000FF"><a href="mailto:billglaze@triad.rr.com">Bill
Glaze</a></font></u></font></font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman"><font size=+0><b>To:</b> <u><font color="#0000FF"><a href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</a></font></u></font></font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman"><font size=+0><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday,
March 26, 2003 10:59 AM</font></font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman"><font size=+0><b>Subject:</b> Re: question
regarding header & tuned pipe</font></font>
<p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size=+0>Gray:</font></font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman"><font size=+0>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.</font></font>
<p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size=+0>Bill Glaze</font></font>
<p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size=+0>Gray E Fowler wrote:</font></font>
<p><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-1>Tom-had to resend without all
the attachments</font></font>
<p><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-1>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.</font></font>
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<p><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-1>Gray Fowler</font></font>
<br><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-1>Principal Chemical Engineer</font></font>
<br><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-1>Composites Engineering</font></font>
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