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1. lakester design (score: 1)
Author: "Allen Young" <riveroak@cncnet.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 18:57:24 -0800
All on the list: WOW!! Thanks a ton to all who replied to my call for help on lakester frame design and fabrication techniques. I had wondered about square tubing and know it would be a whole lot eas
/html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00243.html (8,669 bytes)

2. Re: lakester design (score: 1)
Author: Joe Timney <joetimney@dol.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 09:25:26 -0500
Brazing...ok for bicycles, not cars. The only brazed chassis' I have seen, had a lot of joints to distribute the load and were designed by engineers!!! Do your self a favor...buy a tig machine and t
/html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00251.html (10,477 bytes)

3. lakester design (score: 1)
Author: "Allen Young" <riveroak@cncnet.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 07:41:59 -0800
Joe and list: You've all given me much to ponder and regroup with. I am taking a welding class at the local high school and doing mostly mig work. I have a gas mig at home and had planned on using it
/html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00253.html (8,119 bytes)

4. Re: lakester design (score: 1)
Author: Want1937hd@aol.com
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 11:04:06 EST
I've never had a chance to MIG weld, it looks awful. I've spent a lot of time TIG weld aluminum body panels. If you can gas weld TIG is a cakewalk. Bob in connecticut /// /// land-speed@autox.team.ne
/html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00254.html (8,072 bytes)

5. Re: lakester design (score: 1)
Author: Higginbotham Land Speed Racing <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 12:09:25 -0600
My opinion is that the TIG is much more controllable and more consistent than MIG wspecially at the start of the weld. I would never use MIG on a roll cage, for instance. One thing about square (or
/html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00255.html (9,044 bytes)

6. Re: lakester design (score: 1)
Author: Joe Timney <joetimney@dol.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 18:32:54 -0500
If you can gas weld...you can tig. Remember, welding is 10% theory, 90% practice. I learned gas welding first, in the gas station at 15 doing exhaust systems overhead...I have all the old time drag
/html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00264.html (8,930 bytes)

7. Re: lakester design (score: 1)
Author: Joe Timney <joetimney@dol.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 18:46:47 -0500
The only seamless square tubing I know of is 4130 material. Most of the square / rectangular tubing one would use to build cars, comes in A513 or A500 Grade B. I wrote a piece for the ECTA newslette
/html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00265.html (9,410 bytes)

8. Re: lakester design (score: 1)
Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 21:54:46 -0600
Thanks Joe, I'll be looking for it. Skip /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list /// To unsubscribe send a plain text message to majordomo@autox.team.net /// with nothing in it but /// /// uns
/html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00272.html (9,763 bytes)

9. Re: lakester design (score: 1)
Author: LGMCAFEE@aol.com
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:13:40 EST
<< As for as notching machines, I sell a nice model from Tubular Dynamics but I don't use them in my shop. I notch all of my tubing on a 2" wide belt Baldor belt sander. It has a rubber wheel on the
/html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00279.html (9,105 bytes)

10. Re: lakester design (score: 1)
Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 10:52:22 -0500
Larry et al, This is soo cool; take a look at this site; go to download software; tube profile cutting guide; http://www.tonyfoale.com/ Tony Foale is on the MC chassis list and literally 'wrote the b
/html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00281.html (9,990 bytes)

11. Re: lakester design (score: 1)
Author: Joe Timney <joetimney@dol.net>
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 17:34:51 -0500
This may not be easy to explain. My belt sander is a 2" wide belt, the lower wheel is 7 " in diameter and made of hard rubber.You do not use the flat part of the belt that has the steel backing behin
/html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00285.html (10,352 bytes)

12. Re: lakester design (score: 1)
Author: LGMCAFEE@aol.com
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 21:32:26 EST
<< Press the tube against the belt at a 45degree angle below the centerline of the lower wheel and the rubber will deflect and grind the tubing very fast. I use the edge of the belt to dress the edge
/html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00287.html (8,251 bytes)

13. Re: lakester design (score: 1)
Author: Nt788@aol.com
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 23:58:16 EST
If all you have is a file, get good with it! If all you have is a CNC, get good with it! When digging a ditch I don' t think calculating the taper on the pick is important! (just do it) Nebulous Theo
/html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00289.html (7,858 bytes)

14. Re: lakester design (score: 1)
Author: LGMCAFEE@aol.com
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:09:39 EST
<< If all you have is a file, get good with it! If all you have is a CNC, get good with it! When digging a ditch I don' t think calculating the taper on the pick is important! (just do it) Nebulous T
/html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00299.html (7,854 bytes)

15. RE: lakester design (score: 1)
Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:07:48 -0600
Aircraft Spruce & Specialty and other experimental aircraft builders' supply houses are a good source of thinwall 4130N tubing, both round and square-- even a few sizes of streamline tubing. These da
/html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00309.html (10,430 bytes)


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