Friends in the Stars (Family Law Book 5) by Mackey Chandler

Author:Mackey Chandler [Chandler, Mackey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-10T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“Ah-ha!” Sam exclaimed, exultant.

“You found my secret stash with the good bourbon?” Bill asked.

“I found where the Foys are stashing the stuff they are buying in secret,” Sam said. “They have actually rented storage space not very far away, on the back side of our ridge from a new company that just built there.”

“Does that mean you won’t be going to Capital Provisions and if I want to dip Graham crackers in milk, I better buy my own?” Bill asked.

“On the contrary, I want to know what they could possibly be buying in such large quantity that they can’t even keep it in their new big embassy. I’ll propose some business to them and see if I can get a tour of their plant. Now how to do the same with the storage company? They’ll tend to have better security than most Derf businesses. They are going to be responsible for other’s goods and no telling how valuable some of it might be.”

“Rent a storage room or locker,” Bill said. “You can use it to store my crackers after bringing me a sample box or two. That will get you in the gate and maybe even in a common corridor or building. You do remember how to pick a lock?”

“I may be a little rusty,” Sam admitted, “but I really don’t expect the local variety is going to be very challenging.”

* * *

“I think we can do this ourselves,” Born insisted.

“Maybe you can do it yourself, and I’ll help where I can,” Musical said. “I’m not a machinist and not a design engineer. I shouldn’t have welded up that frame for you. Now you want me to do stuff totally out of my depth.”

“You only need a design engineer if you want an elegant design. A pro can give you a plan for a device that is as light and thin as possible because he knows all the details about material strengths and stress concentrations. He’ll make sure you don’t spend a single dollar more than needed for your just-strong-enough design. But we can do the same thing for our centrifuge you did for an angle iron frame – build it ten times as strong as you need and don’t worry about pretty.”

“Tell me more,” Musical said, worried. “I’m not sure how to apply that design philosophy to something doing sixteen hundred turns a second. It’s dangerous.”

“You already have a robust design. Use the same commercial bearing one size smaller with a smaller disc and the shaft hollow all the way through since it worked OK for the top half already. Make a smaller enclosure for all of it with a slightly thinner wall because we won’t spin as heavy a disk any faster. It’ll end up about half the weight.”

“And job it out cash to local shops without the engineers again?” Musical asked.

“Absolutely, and none of the shops should see the whole thing,” Born said.

“Ok, but we drop Lee a text with pix so she knows what we are doing,” Musical said.

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