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The 3.7"i" mystery solved; DIY alternative applicable to other Maggies also!

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Posted on April 1, 2014 at 11:26:52
JBen
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The first hints came from folks near the Magnepan factory who reported seeing odd-looking giant boxes being installed near the warehouse exits, close to the loading ramps. This was months ago and had no specific meaning at the time. It could have been anything.

Much later someone noticed a curious pattern. Some -- not all -- Maggies were temporarily placed inside those boxes for over an hour. Then they were being taken out and loaded into a truck for shipment. After weeks, it bacame clear that the Maggies placed inside the large boxes were of the same type (size, at least).

None of this would have been really strange. However, 2 things happened recently which caught someone's attention.

One was that as the weather began to warm up, the Maggies stayed inside the large boxes for a longer time before being loaded in the trucks.

Stranger still, some of those same types of Maggies have begun to return to the factory in various delivery trucks. They are usually taken directly from these trucks and placed inside the giant boxes. Whatever they do this for it takes time...but when they come out they are put back in trucks!

So, this morning a curious cat decided to check things closer. The minute he saw no one in the loading ramps he jumped in and ran to the giant boxes to take a peek inside. Unfortunately he was almost caught in the act.

Not before he read the word "Cryogenic" somewhere in that area. So, he figured it out as he ran away. This Tuesday 04/01/2014 it is clear that freezing our Maggies can make them "i" rated!.

(Happy April Fools Day __You do know that I do this every year, don't you? LOL)

 

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RE: The 3.7"i" mystery solved; DIY alternative applicable to other Maggies also!, posted on April 1, 2014 at 11:46:41
JLindborg
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Location: Uppsala
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Aha!!!

The iCry treatment!!!
Nifty!

;)


The one who succeeded was the one who didn't know it was impossible.

 

What a cool tweak!....., posted on April 1, 2014 at 11:57:56
MWE
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Location: Burlington, NC
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OTOH, what a cold prank to play on us.

Mark in NC
Mark in NC
"The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains" -Paul Simon

 

No need for boxes to freeze them...., posted on April 1, 2014 at 13:50:06
Mark Man
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Location: MN
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I went from KC last winter, which just happen to have one their mildest winters ever...To MN this winter which was coldest on record...

So...Everything left outside during January 2014.....
got "Cryro!@#$%^%frozen"...
I am still waiting for it to be warm enough to do this...using a pick-up truck...thought about renting a van, but I am too cheep...I have to pay sales tax...

I am done guessing, they win...
I am guessing their Email/voicemails blew-up today...
I called to get my RA number...no answer/voice mail in sales, press zero, no answer or voice mail, service dept. aka Shelia, got voice mail...
No response as of yet...

Their facility does have a fence all the way around it and a gate...it is in a very residential area, super safe suburbia, front office lobby is a bank teller window in a hallway, with a small listening room with the super MMG's set up...locked door next to the teller window...feels like pretty constant status of Def-Con 2 (state of heightened readiness foreign and domestic)...so for 2/3's of your yarn....you had me....
thanks
Mark



So there it hangs...

 

RE: The 3.7"i" mystery solved; DIY alternative applicable to other Maggies also!, posted on April 8, 2014 at 18:13:46
pictureguy
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Cryo is WAY expensive…and not just for the LN2. You need a 'process' where the part to be treated is cooled and warmed in a controlled fashion. The process requires a 'controller' and someone or a more likely a team of engineers to design, vet and verify a process sequence. Not to mention all the plumbing involved.
Materials that are chilled to that extent also behave 'funny'….not ha ha….just weird. They can get VERY brittle, for example. Everyone has seen the rubber glove simply SHATTER….or the same thing done to a tennis ball….shatters like glass.
ME? I've FROZEN ANTS with LN2 and had 'em simply thaw out and WALK AWAY.
Too much is never enough

 

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