re: #74 sizzzzlerz

Looking at that chart, it should no longer be a mystery why DOD-spec hammers cost $600+

My favourite story about ‘mil-spec’ and the ridiculous requirements it enforces concerned the coffee maker on the P-3 Orion anti-sub aircraft. It was designed to take something like 1,000 G of impact.

So, in the words of one wag, “If it crashes there will be hot coffee waiting for the people who come to pick up the pieces.”