Hmmmm.... Are you going to do this like Joe's doing the window
stickers? ;-)
Scott Barr
scott.barr@mccarty-law.com
72 GT6
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Smith [SMTP:shmitty99@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 1998 5:10 PM
> To: spitfires@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject: Re: SPITFIRE Engine side plates
>
> I need some valences too. I have the old ones in my trunk ... err
> boot
> but they're shot. In the machine shop where I'm working now we make a
>
> lot of prototype sheet metal pieces for telecommunications equipment
> (Nortel). I wouldn't dare to dream that anybody has ever entered
> these
> patternes into a cad program preferably Pro Engineer? Reason I ask,
> if
> I have percise (CAD) drawings I can input them into our automatic
> punching machine and mill those bad boys in like 30 seconds flat. I'd
>
> have to bend them in the press but that doesn't take long either.
> Powder coat them black and I'd be set. I wonder what guage aluminum
> to
> use. 0.090"?
>
> Just thinking aloud on the list.
>
> Ryan Smith
> Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech
> Emerald Green, 72 Spitfire
>
> >From: Andrew Miller <amiller@JetForm.com>
> >To: "'Spitfires'" <spitfires@Autox.Team.Net>
> >Subject: SPITFIRE Engine side plates
> >Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:07:55 -0400
> >Reply-To: Andrew Miller <amiller@JetForm.com>
> >
> >
> >Rod Randle supplied me with some tracings of his engine side valances
> >earlier this year. I had previously emailed measured sketches (I
> don't
> >pretend to be a draughtsman) which showed to size, cuts etc.
> >
> >I'll restore the GIF skecthes tonight and post them tomorrow on a web
> >site with a second email to this list with the URL
> >
> >Andrew
> >78 Spitfire with new painted valances (wild raspberry Tremclad is
> awful
> >close to Triumph Damson)
> >
>
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