To geek out for just a moment on the topic: we had two fix-a-flat substances that required two engineers to agree to use (mostly as a joke interlock - someone had to stop management from slathering it on everything). One was basically putty that you could smoosh over a leaky o-ring (clamp and all); with some work you could seal anything for a few days, but it made an awful mess and it was darn near guaranteed to destroy base pressures later. The other was a vial of clear stuff that was disturbingly like super glue, which would seal any micro leaks like a charm and would hold for a couple pumpdowns. At least, consistently until forgotten.
The machine was so big that it was easy to forget where it was, which o-ring had the clear super glue on it (after a few weeks it was covered in plant filth anyhow, the tags were lost, and too many of the seals had sharpie Xs on them to trust anyhow). It was MASH's meatball surgery, but with low energy plasma physics instead.
I ab-so-freaking-lutely guarantee they will use gorilla glue on the Hyperloop once leak failures become boring and routine. Or super glue. Or giant sheets of Kapton.
Guaranteed. This is going to end up as a union job due to the height requirements and the vacuum. It will be an honestly dangerous job. That means quotas and cutting corners, because there will be humans and it will be 105 out and I just wanna watch the Giants game, man.
The machine was so big that it was easy to forget where it was, which o-ring had the clear super glue on it (after a few weeks it was covered in plant filth anyhow, the tags were lost, and too many of the seals had sharpie Xs on them to trust anyhow). It was MASH's meatball surgery, but with low energy plasma physics instead.
I ab-so-freaking-lutely guarantee they will use gorilla glue on the Hyperloop once leak failures become boring and routine. Or super glue. Or giant sheets of Kapton.