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129517
Cryogenics and Products (09/01/1998)
Kansas City, MO
Pkg
9/1/1998
:45
1:45
Gary Crabtree, Techspec President David Bodden, Reporting Kansas City, Missouri
Shot of the men taking a frozen product out of the freezer, cryogenics scientist sot, reporter sot, nylons, golf balls and a razor being put into freezer, taken out, daisy being frozen and shattered, dropping the golf balls, trying to run the nylons, computer screen with data.
When you hear the term cryogenics, do you think of people being frozen so they can be unthawed in another century? Well, one Kansas City man has found a more practical use for his deep freezer. He's turning his cryogenics business into cold hard cash. David Bodden explains.
Call him mister freeze. Gary Crabtree is the president of Techspec, a company that deals in cryogenics. The science of freezing stuff. The idea is that after a deep freeze, certain items will perform better. SOT "Scissors stay sharper longer." According to Crabtree, a metalurgist, the molecules that make-up steel for instance, are not as uniform as they could be. SOT Thus making the item stronger. Sometimes up to 100 percent stronger. So, how do we get temperatures that low? Liquid nitrogen. SOT "Liquid nitrogen is about 312 degrees below zero, if you want to find out just how cold that is take a look at this. We'll take this ordinary flower and dip it in liquid nitrogen, the result.... it shatters like glass." But it has the opposite effect on practically everything else after they've been properly frozen and thawed over 24 hours. Gary put golf balls, disposable razors and even women's panty hose in the deep freeze. A day later we took them out. Here's the unscientific results we got. Ladies in the office said the pantyhose were more difficult to run, but they did after some torture. The most dramatic test we did was with the golf balls. The one on the left of your screen was untreated. The cryongenically frozen ball consistenly outperformed the other. As for the razor.... we're still gaining the cold facts on that. TAG: Crabtree says almost anything can be frozen. So far, he's frozen such odities as anitque tubas and florescent light bulbs. ---- end ----
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