Re: Cryogenically Frozen Rotors

[Brendan/Coolian <coolian@thecia.net>]

>I saw a portion of a program once ( I might actually have it on tape
>too) on Discovery about a company that freezes items down to absolute
>zero and then warms them back up. According to the show, metal seems to
>be "harder" and more able to endure stress. They mentioned "freezing"
>entire engines for racers, and musical instruments too. In both cases,
>the end users claim better performance from the "frozen" article.


I saw that too...It has to do with "equally-spaced molecular structure 
because of compacting while freezing"

Or, at least, that's what they said....I'm not so sure I buy it, but if it 
works, great.

Brendan
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