Internal observation of shock absorber (X-ray CT)

Hello, RPV. I would like to express my deepest sympathies for the lingering summer heat.

It has been a while. How is everyone doing in this hot weather?

I am sure that many of you are hard at work after the Bon vacation.

We have been inundated with job requests recently and managed to finish them over the Obon vacation. We have made arrangements for our clients to receive the results of their requests after the vacations, so we will be able to concentrate on our work after the vacations. We hope that we can be of some help to high-quality manufacturing in Japan (^^;);

Well, as a quick note, I went night fishing in Amakusa with a friend of mine the other day, as a test drive for some minor maintenance work I had done on my car. It was very humid.

Amakusa by night

I was glad to have caught a flounder in the humid, damp weather. At first I was fishing for horse mackerels, but I was getting tired of it. Usually we can catch good sized horse mackerels, but due to the earthquake and rain, we haven't been able to catch many this year. The effect of the rain was especially large, and until the other day, the seawater was almost muddy. The other day, the seawater was so muddy that it was almost impossible to catch any fish. However, it seems that ajigo are being caught quite well in Amakusa these days.

bastard halibut

After this, my friend caught three magochi and gave me one of them. Of course, I enjoyed it as sashimi. The fried horse mackerel was also delicious.

So, it has been a long time since I have been away from home. By the way, when I drive in Kumamoto, there are still some parts of the road that are in a terrible state of pain. It was getting painful to drive with my old car, so I replaced the shock absorbers and sway bar bushings. I went there to test them. Impressions are that the ride quality has naturally improved, and the steering operation has improved with a more comfortable feeling when less overweight is applied, such as when changing lanes.

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So I scanned the contents of this shock absorber with X-ray CT. Since the video has been well received recently, I made a video of it. It is different from the one in the picture in the image, but if you are interested, please watch it.

It may be easy to understand the structure of a shock absorber, which is composed of several types of components.

Holly, I may still have some time to spare until this week, so I may go fishing again... I'm getting quite a taste of it. The picture is a sea bream that an acquaintance caught at the same place last month. The frame of the ball net is 60cm, so it seems to be more than 2kg. I would like to catch something like this once. Well, it will be impossible for me.;

tai (species of red Pacific sea bream, Pagrus major)

Another acquaintance of mine caught three bluefin squid, which was amazing. He took pity on me for not catching anything and gave me a precious one. Thank you very much. I also enjoyed this one as sashimi. m(*- -*)mI will report if I catch another one. If I don't report it, it means I didn't catch it.