I will eventually get around to doing this for my '74 and will supply t=
hem to
anyone who wants them. However, I don't know if they will fit a '68. =
I
believe the earlier cars used the other design which The Roadster Facto=
ry
sent me by mistake. This one had a "pocket" on one side and was made f=
rom
multiple pieces riveted together. Obviously, it is currently available=
in
cardboard from at least one source.
Jeff Moorse
Hurst, TX
warfiel@gaul.csd.uwo.ca on 08/12/98 09:26:37 AM
To: jeff.moorse@abbott.com @ INTERNET
cc: Spitfires@Autox.Team.Net @ INTERNET
Subject: Re: SPITFIRE Engine side plates
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 ther=
e
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 dec=
ades
and
> these are not difficult parts to produce. However, there are at leas=
t 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
>
>
>
>
>
> 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 bo=
ot
> 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 the=
se
> 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 valance=
s
> >earlier this year. I had previously emailed measured sketches (I do=
n'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 we=
b
> >site with a second email to this list with the URL
> >
> >Andrew
> >78 Spitfire with new painted valances (wild raspberry Tremclad is aw=
ful
> >close to Triumph Damson)
> >
>
>
>
>
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"I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go."
- Words for the Wind, Theodore Roethke
Andy Warfield
warfiel@gaul.csd.uwo.ca
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