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malfist 2 hours ago

For every complex, difficult and hard problem, there is a simple, easy and wrong solution.

Paint obviously is not the right tool for making seals air tight.

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Dylan16807 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It is not obvious to me that there is no specialized type of paint that would be appropriate.

Doing the whole module sounds like a lot of mass though.

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dotancohen 24 minutes ago | parent [-]

It's hard vacuum on one side. There's a reason the word "hard" is used to describe it.

A few years ago a Soyuz was improperly drilled during manufacture. This was patched with a super epoxy... and then began leaking air on orbit. Paint won't seal what a super aerospace epoxy failed to seal.

	▲	Dylan16807 a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		> There's a reason the word "hard" is used to describe it. Because it's more extreme. Do you think a soft vacuum of 0.002 atmospheres of pressure would be notably easier to contain? > A few years ago a Soyuz was improperly drilled during manufacture. This was patched with a super epoxy... and then began leaking air on orbit. Paint won't seal what a super aerospace epoxy failed to seal. Wasn't the fix on the ground a secret patch by the person that drilled the hole? I don't trust that to have been done properly. And then when they noticed it was leaking... they used the super aerospace epoxy. Which was labeled as temporary but as far as I know it's still the fix. Also that was a serious hole, 2mm wide, not a microhole like you'd try to fix with paint.

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tclancy an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You ever try to open an old paint can? Checkmate, atheist.

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Whatarethese an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Flexseal obviously

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honeycrispy 32 minutes ago | parent [-]

You're being sarcastic, but I would like a technical explanation of why this would not work.

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dotancohen 24 minutes ago | parent [-]

Delta P

	▲	rzzzt 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		How about _Space_ Flexseal?

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setopt 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How about glue?

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justinator 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Bubble gum? Like do they chew space bubble gum that they could then smoosh in the holes?

In college, we'd use toothpaste for the holes left from nails in the walls we hung up our posters with.

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ornornor an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Don’t try this if your toothpaste is the blue or green minty flavoured type. You’re welcome.

	▲	taolson 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		We actually did this in my freshman dorm room, as the paint color almost exactly matched the original Crest "green".

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dylan604 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Isn't the main problem finding the hole and not what should be used to fill the hole?

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dotancohen 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

They're not teenage boys.

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Auracle an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just spray Fix-a-Flat everywhere.

Or coat the outside with a soapy water solution.

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justinator 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]