Stainless steel rolls spotted during delivery to Giga Texas today (9/20/22) ?

[JBee]

If you knew that is what it’s all about why haven’t you done it?

One liners or long informative posts nobody reads? I try to keep my posts short...I do I promise.

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[cvalue13]

I think this is not steel

Never seen steel rolls loaded onto flatbed chained at midsection rather than over the axels.

by complete happenstance, this came up in my feed tonight and the comments from truckers were interesting

They call these “suicide coils” because if they break free, they’re coming through the cab

a few comments suggested these must be placed “perfectly” between the wheels (unclear to me why)

but maybe more relevant to this post, this single coil in post actually weighs just under 50,000lbs, which is apparently the relevant legal weight limit for trailers of this category?

That leads me to believe the photographed coils, two on a trailer, are not heavy duty steel?

also hard to say with any certainty but the drone photos don’t appear to have quite the same degree of tie-down gear as drivers look for in a “suicide coil”?

 

[Ogre]

If it's the same steel as spacex.

Anyone with superhero recall power remember seeing the steel in any of the spacex vids ?

 

[cvalue13]

Overlooked Musk quote: “see we had to build the rocket in this shape, because the steel can’t be bent and comes in these coils…”

 

[JBee]

Overlooked Musk quote: “see we had to build the rocket in this shape, because the steel can’t be bent and comes in these coils…”

Well to be fair, they could make Starship any shape they like, but soon after the first pressure test they will all have the same shape anyway... ?

On Starship they also have issues just welding the material, as this too softens the SS. Hence their automated laser welding setup.

 

[Ogre]

I like that when the picture of starship is on I have to scroll a full page plus to see the next post. Appropriate somehow.

 

[Crissa]

These are the first rolls they had at Starbase, though they've had lots of sizes and types.




-Crissa

 

[flowerlandfilms]

Forums are (low grade) entertainment.

It’s not about how starved for information we are, it’s about how bored we are at work. Most of us would be talking about **something** on here regardless.

I’m going to go ride a bike.

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Speculate away!

 

[JBee]

Thanks to that old bat dying, I get the day off.
Speculate away!

If you are in Melbourne you also get a day off tomorrow for playing what Aussies call sport...

 

[charliemagpie]

If you are in Melbourne you also get a day off tomorrow for playing what Aussies call sport...

Every year, we have a public holiday for a horse race...

Every Year, we have a public holiday for the AFL Grand Final parade.


We had to wait 96 years for the Queen.

At least the King is over 70. Won't be as long

 

[JBee]

I try not to be a part of the "public". As such I work whenever I want, play whenever I want. The only time it affects me is when I want to do something with somebody else that is "public" and they are shut for business.

Besides aren't public holidays an invention of the powers that be to keep us little worker bees hopeful for a day off from our perpetual economic enslavement?

Reminds me of Roman crowd control methods: Drink, food and bloody sport.

 

[Tinker71]

I imagine step 1 is a machine that unrolls the coil and shears to length in a couple stacks. Step 2 is the score fold process.

 

[Jhodgesatmb]

The beginning of this thread was a question as to whether these rolls are stainless steel. I have not seen that question answered. I also haven't seen my follow on question answered, namely is the height of these rolls sufficient to fold the CT exoskeleton? I suspect not. Before everyone goes off on the manufacturing process maybe we should try to answer those questions.

 

[JBee]

The beginning of this thread was a question as to whether these rolls are stainless steel. I have not seen that question answered. I also haven't seen my follow on question answered, namely is the height of these rolls sufficient to fold the CT exoskeleton? I suspect not. Before everyone goes off on the manufacturing process maybe we should try to answer those questions.

The cabin glass house is not from the same peice of steel, so the rest would fit on the height of the roll. This was alluded to by charliemagpie in that they will want to optimise the cut out patterns to utilise every peice of material they can.

As for what the material is, I think that if steel rolls are 50,000lb, then these two rolls are aluminium because the truck can't carry that much weight.

 

[cvalue13]

Before everyone goes off on the manufacturing process maybe we should try to answer those questions.

i thought the answers have been given: “Nobody knows - it’s a grainy photo from a drone, not an invoice”

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