Ever heard of Big Deal Custom Cases? They’re a company in Winnipeg, Manitoba who started out making road cases for musicians before diversifying into laptops, field equipment, basically anything breakable anyone needed to carry from one place to another.
Imagine what they thought when NASA phoned them up to build giant cases to carry the sails for the James Webb Space Telescope from the manufacturer to their headquarters.
Probably
huh, that is right up our alley, but were kinda always felt that there’s a secret echelon of “really professional companies” that gets contracted by NASA
What the hell I thought they were just a local place that does work vehicle retrofits and other small stuff. That’s awesome.
Yeah! I didn’t know until I visited with a friend of Gary Dealy (nicknamed Big Deal.) They have framed photos of the whole process. You should ask about it if you’re in there, Gary told us the whole story. Very nice, cool, hilarious people.
Hitachi - Magic wand, Hydraulic excavators, Scanning Electron Microscopes.
My 3 favorite activities.
Mitsubishi: pens, cars, nuclear power plants.
ACs, planes, CNCs, and solar and wind energy, too.
But like many Japanese corporations, they are legally distinct but interlocked companies, see Keiretsu.
They fucked up San onofre so bad it’s now being decommissioned 😡
https://newsroom.edison.com/stories/sce-formally-serves-mitsubishi-with-notice-of-dispute
It was a $680mill job, and SoCal Edison (SCE) had such an inept legal team, they missed a term in the contract with Mitsubishi which limited payout for failure within the 20yr warranty to $125mill.
Can you fucking believe that shit? I only found this out after investigating why there was a $3 “decommissioning fee” on my first electric bill after moving to California.
Just Zaibatsu things…
“Yeah can I get uhhh, a medium sized family sedan, an air conditioner, and a capesize containership?”
They sold the rights to make the magic wand about a decade ago. No longer Hitachi, alas.
Just like TI… They no longer make the famous calculator
Well that makes sense, he had to focus on his music career.
Get off my lawn
Because Hitachi was embarrassed about their innocent personal massager being used for such unwholesome activities. Literal PR move.
I thought Magic Wands were used almost exclusively for holesome activities.
Nice
You’re not supposed to put that thing into your hole.
Actually, it’s pretty good for that
Seems like it would be a violent torturous way to make orifices much larger than they’re supposed to be 😳
Violent? That would be a choice. Maybe I’ll try it sometime. Anyway, it feels amazing.
Wich turned it basically into an US exclusive product, and pretty much impossible to get outside of there
Honestly, I really love glass. What a fantastic material.
Does it really have a resting shocked Pikachu face?
Only from that perspective, the “eyes” are on the supports for the sensor in front of the mirrors
A bra company made NASA’s spacesuits.
I saw a documentary about that which was a total hoot. From some stiff necked old coot talking about “At Hamilton Standard we made propellers and transmission gearboxes for military and commercial applications. They made brassieres.” To this sharp old girl talking about “I was making baby pants and they asked me if I wanted to try something different. They put me in charge of quality control, and I issued each girl color coded pins. I was examining one suit, and I found a red pin, so I looked up who was issued the red pins and I went over to her and said “Here’s your pin” and I stuck her in the behind with it.”
I like to think those two are married.
Two cups in the front, two loops in the back. How do they do it?
Is there any situation where Seinfeld is inappropriate?
When picking up his teenage girlfriend at her high school.
Funnily, they no longer make either of these products. The glass jar division was sold decades ago, and the aerospace sector was purchased by BAE last year. Ball is still the largest manufacturer of aluminum cans, however. They also make plastic bottles.
I like their idea of aluminum cups, but the boxes they come in are unfortunately made from plastic coated paperboard. (Not sure why, with their whole selling point being more environmentally friendly.)
Also aluminum is super great at conducting heat! which means your drink will rapidly move toward whatever temperature it is.
Great at conduction, but with not a lot of thermal mass, meaning that actually your drink will usually just make whatever it’s touching (your hand, often) super cold or hot.
It’s a two way street. Your hand is reciprocally warming the drink.
We’ve been storing and drinking beverages in aluminum cans for like a century now and this hasn’t been a big problem.
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Homies out here calling a Ball jar a Mason jar… Smh. Practically spitting on the abandoned ruins of Muncie, IN.
The style is called a Mason jar because John Mason came up with it and made it popular. This is called a Mason jar for this reason.
John Mason was from New Jersey. What does Muncie IL have to do with the Mason jar style?
honeywell: has home thermostats also honeywell: need defense/data center/aerospace industry products?
Honeywell licenses their name for consumer products. They dont actually make that stuff anymore.
