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Re: SPITFIRE Engine side plates

To: "Moorse,Jeffrey" <jeff.moorse@ABBOTT.COM>
Subject: Re: SPITFIRE Engine side plates
From: Andy Warfield <warfiel@gaul.csd.uwo.ca>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:26:41 -0400 (EDT)
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 there
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 decades and
> these are not difficult parts to produce.  However, there are at least 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 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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    I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
    I learn by going where I have to go."

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Andy Warfield
warfiel@gaul.csd.uwo.ca


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