9 years I worked on and inside what they call HIP Units.

Hot Isostatic Press.

They are basically a very high heat and high pressure cooker for metal parts.

They can be very dangerous as the residents of CederQ’s original stomping grounds town of Canby Oregon found out the hard way Tuesday.

Before you watch the video, allow me to voice my opinion that the unit that blew was probably a smaller unit. The big ones have a 5 foot inner diameter and are about 20 feet deep.

That is a very big bomb.

If you are like most folks and as I was before I went to work on them, you have no idea what a HIP unit is and how they work.

Here is a good video that explains the process and gives you an idea of what they look like,

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I highly reccomend going and listeing to some of his other offerings.

He plays some great blues covers too.