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Palomar

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Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: ZipNuts

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/iss-04zzq.html]Not to be confused with GrapeNuts...

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--Cindy

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John Creighton

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Re: ZipNuts

Nice article Cindy  . This technology obviously makes it easier for people and robots to work in space.

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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: ZipNuts

*Hi John.  Yep, and has lots of practical applications otherwise as well.  Win/win.  :up:

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

SpaceNut

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From: New Hampshire

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 29,431

Re: ZipNuts

Very interesting, a no twist nut use, sort of a mixed technology of a compression and threads.