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10/09/04	C & H Merrill's Dave Merrill Featured in SATOP Quarterly Publication
12/15/03	C & H Merrill Joins SATOP!
12/01/03	C & H Merrill Builds A Positioner For The United States NAVY!
7/15/03	C & H Merrill Helps Out The Boat Shows At Sea World!
6/15/03	C & H Merrill Gives Disney World Passengers A Lift!
4/1/03	C & H Merrill Brings Marina Up To Code!
2/15/03	C & H Merrill Builds A Rollercoaster For Ball Bearings!
1/15/03	C & H Merrill Lets The Picture Do The Talking!

10/09/04 C & H Merrill's Dave Merrill Featured in SATOP Quarterly Publication The Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program (SATOP), funded by NASA, publishes some of their success stories every quarter (Check out "C&H Merrill Joins SATOP! below) . The magazine also includes an alliance partner engineer's profile who provides support to small businesses that request technical assistance from SATOP. Dave Merrill was chosen to be interviewed as this quarters' engineer. "I was absolutely thrilled" said Dave when asked about the interview. "Those guys (SATOP) are fun to work with, and they provide us with a lot of different challenges. But it's not just me, Curtis McAdams is another engineer here at C&H Merrill that also provides assistance. Curtis comes up with solid, simple and cost effective solutions that small businesses need." Nevertheless, if you are a small business and require technical assistance (up to 40 hours free) contact the good people at SATOP and maybe Dave and Curtis can help you out.
12/15/03 C & H Merrill Joins SATOP! Do you know what S-A-T-O-P spells??? FREE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE!!!!! The Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program (SATOP), funded by NASA, provides free technical assistance to small businesses. As an assistance provider, we could help YOU! The program is designed to help transfer space technology to the commercial community. For more information about SATOP, visit: (up)

12/01/03 C&H Merrill, Inc. Builds A Positioner For The United States NAVY! Know anyone IN THE NAVY? The most recent work of C & H Merrill, Inc., the Mobile Transducer Positioner, positions underwater acoustic transducers and arrays for test and calibration. C & H Merrill, Inc. designed, developed and installed what we call the “Positioner” for the United States Navy. The positioner has a two ton capacity and moves vertically, horizontally and with azimuth along a 30’ long by four foot wide test well. Unlike the current positioners used by the Navy, this positioner utilizes remote movement capabilities whereas the others do not. This positioner will replace the current positioners used by the Navy. (up)

07/15/03 C & H Merrill Helps Out The Boat Shows At Sea World! Have you ever been to Sea World in Orlando, Florida??? How about the boat shows at Sea World? If you have, you probably saw the drawbridge there that allows the boats to go into and out of the marina. That’s our work! The automated, 90 degree actuated drawbridge at Sea World allows boats to cross from one side of a body of water to the other. C & H Merrill, Inc. designed, developed and installed the mechanics for that “Rotating Bridge” in the early part of 2003. (up)

06/15/03 C & H Merrill Gives Disney World Passengers A Lift! Unless you rode the monorail to The Magic Kingdom at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, you took the ferryboat. Yep, we designed, developed and installed the automated gangway lift system used to load and unload passengers from the ferryboats. If you didn’t notice them before, you will now! (up)

04/01/03 C & H Merrill Brings Marina Up To Code! Have you ever heard of Provincetown? No not Providence Rhode Island. Provincetown Massachusetts, a small town located on Cape Cod. Well, because it is less time consuming to take a ferryboat from Boston to Provincetown than to drive in the manic Boston traffic, many people do so to get to the boats in Provincetown to go whale watching. The ADA standard requires marinas to have Handicap Access at the ports and you will never guess who designed, developed and installed them……..Okay, maybe you will………Just in case you have a shadow of a doubt……..US!!!!!! Our servo driven, three-axis, fully automated self-leveling lift for Handicap Access to marinas traverses, self-levels with the tide and lifts passengers up and down the gangways. The “Handy-Lift” is quite a sight to behold! (up)

02/15/03 C & H Merrill Builds A Rollercoaster For Ball Bearings! Imagine a really cool rollercoaster ride. What would it be like? How about this: We call it “THE CHAMBER”. You get on the ride. It takes you into a holding chamber. It moves slowly in a circle until suddenly you are DROPPED into “The Cleaning Chamber” where they SOAK you with water. Before you know what is going on you ZIP through a few doors and are THROWN into another chamber where they LEVITATE you and warm you until you are dry. Then to make sure you don’t overheat, while still levitated they BLAST you with cool air before dropping you through a TRAP door that leads to the outside. Well, this is similar to what our Automated Levitation Chamber at Marshall Space Flight Center does to make perfectly spherical ball bearings that are used for space applications. C & H Merrill, Inc. designed, developed and installed this pressure/vacuum levitation chamber in the first part of 2003. The system consists of an Automated Feed Section, and a Levitation Chamber that interfaces with existing chambers. I bet you never pictured yourself as a ball bearing before! (up)

01/15/03 C & H Merrill Lets The Picture Do The Talking! Because this application is confidential, we must let the picture do the talking. What we can tell you about this product is that C & H Merrill, Inc. designed and developed automated sequencing of up to 60 hydraulic cylinders and special power units and manifolds for those cylinders. (up)