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RE: SPITFIRE Engine side plates

To: "'Ryan Smith'" <shmitty99@hotmail.com>, spitfires@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: RE: SPITFIRE Engine side plates
From: "Barr, Scott" <sbarr@mccarty-law.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:19:40 -0500
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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