Astronaut Survival Saw

P

PBJ

Joined
Apr 14, 2006
Messages
181
Chuck Yeager told about how he used a astronaut or Air Force survival saw (some sort of super abrasive coating on a cable with a 1.5 ring at either end) to cut away the helmet collar on his pressure suit. Yeager had tried busting or prying the collar off but it was too tough. In desperation he tried the survival saw. Experts had told the pilots it would cut through anything and Yeager said that saw went through that stuff easily.

Does anyone still make those survival saws?
 
Get ahold of a large animal veterinarian. One who routinely works with cows. Ask him for a length of Gigli saw which is used for intra-uterine disection of stillborn calves. It is a cable coated with either diamond or carbide (used to be diamond but now may be carbide due to lower cost). Grisly job but it is the same material as has been used in escape kits and survival kits since WWII.
 
Abrasive will "cut" (actually more like abraze their way) through anything provided you have enough time and enough abrasive (of course the more hard the abrasive material the better).

I've also been using diamond files and even the surface of some diamond sharpening stones to cut through stuff; even rectifying ceramics and it does work to some extend.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top