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Anyone able to shed some light on this for me?

Well we've decided to take another approach to this project. My task now is to drill to holes into a scrap piece of stock to put thermocouples in and directly measure the temperature to get a cooling curve. My question now is, how do I account for thermal expansion when I drill these holes...

As far as chemistry goes, I'm really open to anything. I feel a standard deep cycle would be cheapest/easiest but not necessarily the best choice. As far as life cycle, obviously long is better. What is the useful life of some options?

First, I'm not looking for an exact number here or anything like that. More just bouncing ideas around and talking out loud. Say you have a mid 90s Ford Ranger with a manual transmission. You remove the original motor and get some type of small diesel engine (Kubota, VW, Mercedes, 4BT...

Cyanoacrylate? aka Super Glue.

Astronuc, I think I have gotten to that point. I have attached my work up to this point in the pdf. If my calculations are correct, the core of a 20" diameter piece would be around 1200F after 13 hours if it started at a uniform 2300F. The original temperature of the part would either be...

Hey guys, First off, I apologize if this is in the wrong section. I am currently an intern taking 6 months off from my senior year pursuing a mechanical engineering degree. Having not taken a heat transfer class yet, I am stumped as to how to go about tackling my latest project. Basically...