That is beautiful work, the
welded connections are really impressive. Obviously they had to take into account massive forces, vibration and possibly impact damage, but still, to see components welded in place is something I've never seen before, not even in very high end HF power electronics.
> The AGC that we're restoring belongs to a private owner who picked it up at a scrapyard in the 1970s after NASA scrapped it.
That is one lucky find. Imagine that it had not been found and scrapped for its metal value. The mind boggles at the potential destruction of such a historical artifact.
> the cordwood components are mounted differently from the other cordwood modules.
For those from cities who have never seen cordwood:
Cordwood is a stack of wood of short length seen from the endgrain, typically used when referring to firewood but also sometimes used in construction.
> The AGC that we're restoring belongs to a private owner who picked it up at a scrapyard in the 1970s after NASA scrapped it.
That is one lucky find. Imagine that it had not been found and scrapped for its metal value. The mind boggles at the potential destruction of such a historical artifact.
> the cordwood components are mounted differently from the other cordwood modules.
For those from cities who have never seen cordwood:
Cordwood is a stack of wood of short length seen from the endgrain, typically used when referring to firewood but also sometimes used in construction.