RE: Grumman (was Weller)

[Jeremiah McCarthy]

It was a climate controlled room in Bethpage, Long Island, was in Plant 5,
and was called "the clean room"...If he actually took you right into the
room (not outside looking through a window), then you had to put on a
smock, booties, and hat and enter through an air lock...You should feel
privileged because not many outsiders got that kind of treatment...The
clean room was where the OAO, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, the
forerunner of the Hubbel Telescope was built, and was originally a hanger
where WWII fighters were built...

Jerry, wa2dkg


> [Original Message]
> From: Vin Cortina <[hidden email]>
> To: <[hidden email]>; <[hidden email]>
> Date: 7/23/06 8:55:11 AM
> Subject: Grumman (was Weller)
>
> Speaking of Grumman and the LM.  I know this is off topic, but I just had
to
> tell you all back in the mid to late 80's in my early years at H.P., I
was
> doing field service on what we called Test and Measurement equipment, and
I
> was specializing in microwave network analysis.  Grumman was one of my
> accounts, and I visited them in Bethpage, Calverton and some other minor
> site, I believe.  Anyway, there was one lab I went to somewhat frequently
> and the older engineers there took a shining to me, I guess.  They
brought
> me into the lab (they may have called it a hangar) where the LM was made.
> Doesn't sound like much of a story now, but you must imagine what a
thrill
> that was.  I was 13 years old when Apollo 11 made its historic voyage,
and
> have been an amateur astronomer longer than I've been a ham.  So this was
a
> VERY big deal to me.  I only hope those fellows know what a gift they
gave

> me by simply giving me a personal tour of that place.
>
> OK, now back to my KX1
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Vin  KR2F
>
> K1-4 s/n:1977
> KX1  s/n:1476
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremiah McCarthy" <[hidden email]>
> To: <[hidden email]>
> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 10:01 AM
> Subject: [Elecraft] Weller
>
>
> > Gregory Beat wrote:
> >
> >>Grumman used the TCP irons for the Lunar LM construction in 1960s;

Collins
> > for the "S" line production and rework stations in 1960s and 1970s and
> > NASA
> > in 2002 used a Weller WTCPT pencil (tied to station's 24 VAC bus) on ISS
> > Alpha for soldering tests in microgravity.<
> >
> > A very informative post...Thanks, Greg...
> >
> > I own one of those Grumman soldering stations...The company let me keep
it

> > when I retired in 1993 and it is still in use today...It is at least 35
> > years old and works perfectly...
> >
> > Jerry, wa2dkg
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