Helium Shortage?
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Here's an article which describes the state of Helium availability in the US right now. Our local store "Airgas" stopped selling it here in Ventura Ca. also.
http://www.gasworld.com/world-exclusive-helium-shortage-20/5727.article
http://www.gasworld.com/world-exclusive-helium-shortage-20/5727.article
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Scientists Speak Out Against Helium In Balloons
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/09/23/0518247/scientists-speak-out-against-wasting-helium-in-balloons?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/09/23/0518247/scientists-speak-out-against-wasting-helium-in-balloons?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Quatar II refinery comes online next May, but another article says that without the Government Storage of Helium which is byproduced from treatment of natural gas and its upgrading, enough Earth-born He will be lost to outer space that usable supplies will run out by 2015. Until aliens bring some from the beyond... Second most abundant element in the Universe is harder to hold onto than "nailing smoke to a tree." Maybe we should all switch back to Westrex cutterheads... (/;
- Hairy Bottlefountain
- Hairy Bottlefountain
The world is going to run out of helium by 2015.
FALSE
The U.S. government’s strategic stockpile will be largely sold off by 2015. The world still has tremendous unexploited helium reserves.
FALSE
The U.S. government’s strategic stockpile will be largely sold off by 2015. The world still has tremendous unexploited helium reserves.
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A 74 drive package for a neumann lathe is 350 Watts per channel. That's a maximum of 700 watts running through the cutterhead. Not something i would feel comfortable running fluid lines through. Nothing is perfect. If a seal started leaking it could cause corrosion/rusting. At worst you could cause a short and blow your cutterhead. That is a very expensive fix for Neumann heads (6K and 3 to 6 months downtime).
I've considered this in the past. Seriously, compesed air would work if you could remove the moisture.
I've considered this in the past. Seriously, compesed air would work if you could remove the moisture.
Cutting, Inventing & Innovating
Groove Graphics, VMS Halfnuts, MIDI Automation, Professional Stereo Feedback Cutterheads, and Pesto 1-D Cutterhead Clones
Cutterhead Repair: Recoiling, Cleaning, Cloning of Screws, Dampers & More
http://mantra.audio
Groove Graphics, VMS Halfnuts, MIDI Automation, Professional Stereo Feedback Cutterheads, and Pesto 1-D Cutterhead Clones
Cutterhead Repair: Recoiling, Cleaning, Cloning of Screws, Dampers & More
http://mantra.audio