Voyagers Motorised Nacelles

[All Seeing Eye]

Did they need oiling regularly? this is a serious question, they were up and down that many times surely they needed maintaining with some kind of lubricant.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

I'd ask Rick Sternbach over on the Tech forums - he probably put some thought into it when designing the thing. Me, I think that the armatures would not be in complete physical contact at all, but the joints would work by some form of magnetic repulsion. They would then be physically locked down when they reached their desired position.

Mark

 

[FalTorPan]

Fire said:
Did they need oiling regularly? this is a serious question, they were up and down that many times surely they needed maintaining with some kind of lubricant.

I suspect that's why the ship had two Delaney sisters.

 

[Laren]

FalTorPan said:

Fire said:
Did they need oiling regularly? this is a serious question, they were up and down that many times surely they needed maintaining with some kind of lubricant.

I suspect that's why the ship had two Delaney sisters.

Aren't Trek ships self-cleaning? I bet they're self-lubricating, too.

 

[Rick Sternbach]

Mark_Nguyen said:
I'd ask Rick Sternbach over on the Tech forums - he probably put some thought into it when designing the thing. Me, I think that the armatures would not be in complete physical contact at all, but the joints would work by some form of magnetic repulsion. They would then be physically locked down when they reached their desired position.

Mark

Hyperteflon bearings impregnated with directionally-strengthened tritanium microspheres filled with carbon-120. Gotta be.

Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com

 

[Laren]

Rick Sternbach said:

Mark_Nguyen said:
I'd ask Rick Sternbach over on the Tech forums - he probably put some thought into it when designing the thing. Me, I think that the armatures would not be in complete physical contact at all, but the joints would work by some form of magnetic repulsion. They would then be physically locked down when they reached their desired position.

Mark

Hyperteflon bearings impregnated with directionally-strengthened tritanium microspheres filled with carbon-120. Gotta be.

Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com

Isn't technobabble just awsome?

 

[Akiraprise]

It's canon! Rick said so!

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Rick Sternbach said:
Hyperteflon bearings impregnated with directionally-strengthened tritanium microspheres filled with carbon-120. Gotta be.

Rick

So not KY Jelly then?

 

[FalTorPan]

Fire said:

Rick Sternbach said:
Hyperteflon bearings impregnated with directionally-strengthened tritanium microspheres filled with carbon-120. Gotta be.

Rick

So not KY Jelly then?

Nah. Not enough syllables.

 

[Rick Sternbach]

Laren said:

Rick Sternbach said:

Mark_Nguyen said:
I'd ask Rick Sternbach over on the Tech forums - he probably put some thought into it when designing the thing. Me, I think that the armatures would not be in complete physical contact at all, but the joints would work by some form of magnetic repulsion. They would then be physically locked down when they reached their desired position.

Mark

Hyperteflon bearings impregnated with directionally-strengthened tritanium microspheres filled with carbon-120. Gotta be.

Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com

Isn't technobabble just awsome?

It's only babble if it doesn't make any sense. The faithful understand.

Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com

 

[Ghel]

Doh, I just knew I shouldn't have bought those HYPO-teflon bearings from QVC. Now my warp drive just ain't gonna work right. . .