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Reply to Rich
Rich what You said is the most intelligent thing I have read in here. I know that most of the readers in here have very little experiance with shaping sheet metal. I on the other hand have a lot. I haven't even disscussed some methods of forming sheet metal. Such as Hydraulic, Picture this if You built a form out of foam and then cast a mold of it from high psi concrete, sandwich a piece of steel between the concrete mold and a steel backing plate. With a pressure port in the middle. Use a O-ring to seal it. build a reusable framework to hold it all together. All you would need is about 500psi ( A Small pressure washer would do) You would have a way to build 3d parts very cheaply. Won't work You say. It's used everyday by Car and motorcycle manufacters in the States and Japan. How do You think the design departments in these factorys build prototypes. Do You think they go to the diemakers and say would You build us a million dollars worth of Molds so We can try out a new idea. For a Car thats got a 10% chance of making it into production!! A way thats used in the ship building industry Explosive forming. Don't belive that either. Electric Boat in Groaton. Builds Submarines for the U.S. Navy. They use a Huge concrete form and Explosives to form the Noses of submarines out of HR plate 1 1/2 inches thick! Now don't get Me wrong I probly won't resort to Explosives to build Flares for a 914. But Ya never know! I mentioned this to prove to some of the naysayers out there that there is many options to try. All it takes is original thinking and a little effort. I know many other ways to form sheet metal that I am not even going into here. I will repeat something that I said before. I am really disapointed in the racers out there in 914 land. If the majority of 914 racers feel like some of the things I have heard in here. Then maybe I should take up racing 914's. It sounds like some of Ya could be learning from behind Me. Just kidding. I have no interest in racing 914's. Thanks
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