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...script called for Nelson to float to within arm's reach of Max's 7-ft.-long, windmill-Uke solar array panels and fire the minijets on his MMU to match Max's spin of one revolution every 6 min. Using a trunnion-pin attachment device (TPAD), a hollow canister-shaped mechanism strapped like a huge belly button to the chest of his suit, Nelson would gently bump the 5,000-lb. satellite's protruding trunnion pin (installed for just such a rescue). Three rubber-coated, spring-loaded jaws in Nelson's TPAD were supposed...
...anticipation of just such a rescue, Solar Max's creators equipped the satellite with a pin, or trunnion, near its midriff. It forms a perfect mate with a gadget to be carried by Nelson that looks like a fat belly button. NASA calls that protrusion TPAD (for trunnion pin attachment device). Nelson will attach the TPAD to the pin and then fire some of the MMU'S thrusters to brake Solar Max's rotation...
...height of the rocket's trajectory, the nose cone should have opened, the spectrometer glided out on a trunnion and spent five minutes scanning the dise of the sun. The spectrometer then should have folded back into the nose cone. Hopefully, the instrument will be recovered when the cone lands in New Mexico...
...luridly contorted figures: Elizabeth Willard. whose uncontrollable love for her son feeds "the feeble blaze of life that remained in her;" the Peeping-Tom minister, the Rev. Curtis Hartman, who sees God in a naked woman; a love-starved spinster named Alice Hindman; and the local doxy, one Louise Trunnion. As Anderson had done, Choreographer Saddler used the inflamed observations of George Willard, Elizabeth's son and a reporter for the Winesburg Eagle, as the thread to stitch the incidents together...
Pound or Pour? Sample military gadget is a machine-gun trunnion block, on which the gun swivels. When it is forged, i.e.., pounded, into rough shape out of a hot chunk of steel, it weighs 20 lb. In machining the block into shape, 14 lb. of steel is drilled, planed and ground away before the crude lump becomes a finished 6-lb. trunnion block...