Angle grinder needed at nasa

[whateg01]

Just kidding. But I do have to wonder how overthought the final tool design was.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Team Clears Hurdle to Access Remaining Bennu Sample – OSIRIS-REx Mission

blogs.nasa.gov

 

[minke]

A little context:

NASA Finally Unlocks Stuck Fasteners on Asteroid Sample Capsule - Slashdot

"For months, bits of an asteroid collected by a U.S. probe during a billion-mile trek were out of reach to scientists," reports Space.com, "locked inside a return capsule in a NASA facility with two stuck fasteners preventing access to the rocky space treasure. "This week, NASA won its battle...

science.slashdot.org

 

[whateg01]

I don't think I've seen a picture of the tool they ended up with. I wonder what it looks like.

 

[BrandonV]

One of them is this according to the caption. Cool. I was at ASU when part of one of the instruments was being constructed in the cleanroom.

 

[whateg01]

I completely missed that that was one of them. I guess I've gotten so used to an ad being at the top of the page, I scrolled right past it to the text.

Looks like maybe a c clamp to hold the wrench on the fastener so it doesn't slip off?

 

[BrandonV]

I completely missed that that was one of them. I guess I've gotten so used to an ad being at the top of the page, I scrolled right past it to the text.

Looks like maybe a c clamp to hold the wrench on the fastener so it doesn't slip off?

Yeah. Wonder what sort of fastener style they used.

 

[BrandonV]

Actually this photo shows it pretty well. Looks like Torq-set.

 

[LopezBart]

Yeah. Wonder what sort of fastener style they used.

From https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/n...itial studies of the 4.5,be found in the rock.

 

[BrandonV]

From https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/n...itial studies of the 4.5,be found in the rock.

Seriously can't believe they chose Torq-set... Everyone I know who runs into those in aerospace makes jokes about them.

 

[LopezBart]

Seriously can't believe they chose Torq-set... Everyone I know who runs into those in aerospace makes jokes about them.

Interesting that they used Allen head fasteners on the inner ring.... perhaps they're depth limited on the outer circle. Maybe they'll try Mortorq next:

 

[minke]

One of them is this according to the caption. Cool. I was at ASU when part of one of the instruments was being constructed in the cleanroom.

How did the air filter from my '77 Chevy get into that picture??

 

[BrandonV]

All I know is this smells like typical NASA. You think ever since Torx got invented in the late 1960s they would have just gone that direction instead of probably sticking with Torq-set.

 

[Nodakdad]

Leave it to the government to figure out a way to need a million dollar screw driver

 

[Snip's]

During assembly of those two fasteners, someone grabbed the red #271 by mistake?

 

[BrandonV]

Cool ad I found BTW from 1957.

 

[whateg01]

Maybe NASA didn't get the memo.

 

[ptabatcher]

Actually this photo shows it pretty well. Looks like Torq-set.

Thanks. I was wondering what they were when I saw this. To my uneducated eye, they reminded me of some of the tamper-proof screws you see in restrooms from time to time.