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Tejano Space Cowboy

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

That specifically, for a long time, we were scared to talk about the inner mechanics of the elbow because we were worried about trade secrets and stuff like that. But after talking to George, the guy is like, This is so hard to build that he wanted me to the Ukraine is like, give it away, like show it to people like his goal is to is to build it better.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

That specifically, for a long time, we were scared to talk about the inner mechanics of the elbow because we were worried about trade secrets and stuff like that. But after talking to George, the guy is like, This is so hard to build that he wanted me to the Ukraine is like, give it away, like show it to people like his goal is to is to build it better.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

So people are not dealing with broken prosthetics that they're like relying on to like feed their families. And so like open sourcing, talking about it is interesting. This is how the elbow moves up and down. So it's a pylon. And so typically, that would be all inner. That would be located in the elbow. So all my other elbows, it's inner.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

So people are not dealing with broken prosthetics that they're like relying on to like feed their families. And so like open sourcing, talking about it is interesting. This is how the elbow moves up and down. So it's a pylon. And so typically, that would be all inner. That would be located in the elbow. So all my other elbows, it's inner.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

So people are not dealing with broken prosthetics that they're like relying on to like feed their families. And so like open sourcing, talking about it is interesting. This is how the elbow moves up and down. So it's a pylon. And so typically, that would be all inner. That would be located in the elbow. So all my other elbows, it's inner.

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It's not accessible to somebody to work on, but it's typically plastic. It's typically a plastic gear. And so that limits it. And even sometimes the steel ones. A lot of prosthetics upper extremity are limited by the fact that they try to make them look like arms to contain all of that movement right there. But the materials are not tough enough to do something like that.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

It's not accessible to somebody to work on, but it's typically plastic. It's typically a plastic gear. And so that limits it. And even sometimes the steel ones. A lot of prosthetics upper extremity are limited by the fact that they try to make them look like arms to contain all of that movement right there. But the materials are not tough enough to do something like that.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

It's not accessible to somebody to work on, but it's typically plastic. It's typically a plastic gear. And so that limits it. And even sometimes the steel ones. A lot of prosthetics upper extremity are limited by the fact that they try to make them look like arms to contain all of that movement right there. But the materials are not tough enough to do something like that.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

So like there's a metal elbow that whenever you try to make it steel โ€“ Over and over and over.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

So like there's a metal elbow that whenever you try to make it steel โ€“ Over and over and over.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

So like there's a metal elbow that whenever you try to make it steel โ€“ Over and over and over.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

So glad you brought that up.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

So glad you brought that up.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

So glad you brought that up.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

Yeah. So once you break or fray carbon fiber, that's why people ask about why metal. And I was like, well, there's a reason all knees are metal. So that's like that gets into a really niche thing. But this was made specifically to protect the carbon fiber socket because I've broken carbon fiber sockets.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

Yeah. So once you break or fray carbon fiber, that's why people ask about why metal. And I was like, well, there's a reason all knees are metal. So that's like that gets into a really niche thing. But this was made specifically to protect the carbon fiber socket because I've broken carbon fiber sockets.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

Yeah. So once you break or fray carbon fiber, that's why people ask about why metal. And I was like, well, there's a reason all knees are metal. So that's like that gets into a really niche thing. But this was made specifically to protect the carbon fiber socket because I've broken carbon fiber sockets.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

And carbon fiber is so uniquely fragile when it comes to, like, so when I was at Kilimanjaro, you could see the digs of the obsidian into the aluminum. Oh, yeah. And it dug right into it. And it was funny because this was originally carbon fiber, but we converted it to metal and cut this part out because we were like, only metal where it needs to be metal.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

And carbon fiber is so uniquely fragile when it comes to, like, so when I was at Kilimanjaro, you could see the digs of the obsidian into the aluminum. Oh, yeah. And it dug right into it. And it was funny because this was originally carbon fiber, but we converted it to metal and cut this part out because we were like, only metal where it needs to be metal.

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187 - How The VA Failed This Disabled Military Veteran ft. Tejano Space Cowboy | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 187

And carbon fiber is so uniquely fragile when it comes to, like, so when I was at Kilimanjaro, you could see the digs of the obsidian into the aluminum. Oh, yeah. And it dug right into it. And it was funny because this was originally carbon fiber, but we converted it to metal and cut this part out because we were like, only metal where it needs to be metal.