Cooking up improvisation
The article (Apr 07) on improvisation in experimental physics was a fascinating one. Along the same lines, I heard that at Cornell (I think), and probably at least one other accelerator, Revereware—copper-bottomed steel cookware—was used to avoid having to make copper to steel welds. Instead a hole was cut in the copper bottom of the cookware, and that was welded to copper pipe. Then the steel top was welded to steel.
Lance Dixon, SLAC
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