[rescue] Accidentally destroying hardware..

[Andrew Weiss]

And as a chemist I used sintered glass filtering funnels all the time.
Our chromatography columns also had a disk of sintered glass.

Andrew

> Sintered powder casting is a great way to get parts that are very, very
> uniform in their composition, cross sectionally speaking.  Extruded, forged
> or liquid cast parts all have 'grain' in them based on the physical process
> of deforming the metal and/or turbulence when the material "flows".
>
> Also, sintered material can be more elastic and resilient than monolithic
> parts, and can in some cases be lighter.  Consider what mixtures of different
> metals powders with similar melting points but different densities could
> result in.