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      05-20-2015, 09:44 PM   #5
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I used to buy machine tools for Lockheed Martin. That 5-axis machining center in the video does not look like a high-rate production machining center and looks more like a prototyping machine, or a low-rate production machine at best. Machining turbo fans from billet would be cost prohibitive for high-rate production of turbos. Jashley73 is correct, production-rate parts for turbos are pressure cast, or roto-cast parts.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."

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