My spit also does not have the valences, and I have been thinking about
trying to get some. Jeffery, if you do end up punching dimensions into
some sort of CAD, I would love to get a copy of them off of you. That way
I can look for a way to get them built locally. Alternatively, if there
are enough people interested maybe we could arrange to have a batch of
valences made up.
Andy.
'68 Mk III
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Moorse,Jeffrey wrote:
> I would be happy to draw these up on a CAD system if someone has the
> dimensions. I have been doing design and tooling engineering for decades and
> these are not difficult parts to produce. However, there are at least 2
> valance designs, depending on the year of your car. I ordered a set for my
> 1974 from The Roadster Factory and got the wrong ones, which did not fit.
> Their catalog apparently is incorrect and the ones for a '74 are not
> available anywhere. I plan to make some from plastic sheet some day,
> probably .090 ABS. I can work plastic at home with woodworking tools and it
> won't dissolve in the presence of salt water and steel like aluminum will.
>
> Jeff Moorse
> Hurst, TX
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> owner-spitfires@autox.team.net on 08/11/98 05:31:32 PM
> Please respond to shmitty99@hotmail.com @ INTERNET
> To: spitfires@autox.team.net @ INTERNET
> cc:
> 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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I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go."
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Andy Warfield
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