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Q&A How to protect intelligent fluids from heat damage?

This is not a bug, it is a feature The gun isn't hot until you fire it. That first shot will, due to the trauma, cause the jam to solidify and block the bullet. At the same time, the heat will dea...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar manassehkatz‭ · 2021-05-12T14:46:45Z (almost 3 years ago)
[This is not a bug, it is a feature](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=It%27s%20not%20a%20bug%2C%20it%27s%20a%20feature)

The gun isn't hot until you fire it. That first shot will, due to the trauma, cause the jam to solidify and block the bullet. At the same time, the heat will deactivate the jam, but the solidification has already happened - essentially in the death throes of the jam. So it will actually work **better** because now it is stuck (rigor mortis) in the solid state and won't simply undo itself after a few minutes the way the same jam would when installed in a simpler, cooler machine as originally designed (e.g., safety mechanism for power tools).