What is a "stinger"?
What is a "stinger"?
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Is it used for instrumentation in helium service? What does such an item do?
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RE: What is a "stinger"?
I guess the name "stinger" is used because the "nozzle" and catch looks like a "stinger". I suppose we could have called it a "bayonet" too, but, stinger it is.
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Some more pictures here:
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RE: What is a "stinger"?
In the NYC subway shops, a stinger is a large diameter flexible electrical cable suspended from the ceiling. The free end is temporarily attached to the pickup shoe that normally slides on the third rail, in order to provide 600VDC to move a subway car within the shop, where there are only two rails.
Just as in the animal world, you will regret touching a stinger. Hence the name.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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With all the people involved with boilers, heaters, and furnaces the big one has been missed:
The evolution of a paint peeling hot spot on the skin of any of the above into glowing red metal can be the mother of all stingers.
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