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Re: SPITFIRE Engine side plates

To: "Barr, Scott" <sbarr@mccarty-law.com>
Subject: Re: SPITFIRE Engine side plates
From: "Victor B. Michael" <vmichael@tibco.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:31:58 -0500
That's what it sounded like to me! <big grin>

Vic

Barr, Scott wrote:
> 
> 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)
> > >
> >

-- 
Regards,

Vic

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