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Offline tauruck

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Re: Springfield Flyer.
« Reply #3285 on: November 05, 2018, 09:05:34 AM »
I've never given any part or car a nickname before but this is different.

You can all figure this one out for yourselves. :-D :-D :-D

There's a lesson in this. Treat people with respect no matter who
they are or what country they come from. Bad attitude and bad
manners will bite you BIG TIME!!!!. :wink:

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Re: Springfield Flyer.
« Reply #3286 on: November 06, 2018, 11:01:10 AM »
touch that up on the grinder and you are good to go Mike...……….
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Re: Springfield Flyer.
« Reply #3287 on: November 06, 2018, 11:51:40 AM »
Jer, I was told the guys at Honingcraft did such a good job I should have let them finish the part.
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Re: Springfield Flyer.
« Reply #3288 on: November 06, 2018, 05:44:34 PM »
Boy, wouldn't OSHA have fun with that grinder today?

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Re: Springfield Flyer.
« Reply #3289 on: November 12, 2018, 10:12:45 AM »
Layed up the butterfly for the throttle body.
We have to be different and besides I have the skills (Kneeling and praying) to produce
a flat plate.
14 layers of the very expensive Carbon fabric used only on Ducati and I have a few metres
left so what the heck. Gebi, my friend gave me a 1,26kg pack of the best, highest temerature
Epoxy made. 180*C.
14 layers compressed will give a final thickness of just over 3mm. I used a new approach.
I have some round plates of toughened glass that originally came off port holes from a ship.
Got the 1" plank on the press the put down the glass plate with release agent applied.
Then layed up the square pieces of fabric (150 x 150mm) going 45*, 90* and so on.
The weft and warp are in every direction imaginable. Second Glass plate on top with another
thick plank of wood on top.
5 tonnes of pressure!!!!!!!. Gebi says I'm nuts because I probably squeezed all the resin out.

That's the idea. :wink: :wink:

Part has been post curing for two days. 40*C x 4 hours, 80*C x 4 hours and 120*C x 6 hours.
Looks great through the glass and I know it's better than any brass plate around.

Going to demold tomorrow and then we'll see if I'm right. Got to get it water jet cut to size. :cheers: :cheers:

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Re: Springfield Flyer.
« Reply #3290 on: November 12, 2018, 11:25:38 AM »
Mike, your skills make mine look positively anthropoid.

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ
Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

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Re: Springfield Flyer.
« Reply #3291 on: November 12, 2018, 01:18:19 PM »
The jury is still out on that!!!!!. I could spend months learning from you.
The aviation stuff really excites me. All I have here is what you sent me
and a mixed bag of aero rivets I'd love to use somewhere.

I'm one of those stubborn guys that won't give up and rejection is motivation.
Neil, this throttle body is going to be different but very cool. I want it BAD!!!!.

Thanks for the kind words and always offering assistance. Without all you guys
this wouldn't be happening.

Things are taking off again and I don't know where I'm going to put all the decals. :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

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Re: Springfield Flyer.
« Reply #3292 on: November 15, 2018, 06:34:05 AM »
I rough cut the throttle body plate and it took some work.
This is a pretty solid piece of Carbon.

The OD is 120mm but I'll cut it down to the correct profile
near to the 105mm OD once I've built a tool to cut the plate
at the correct angle.

From experience if there's a problem with delamination it
shows up when the piece is cut using a reciprocating saw.
Nothing here thankfully. I even checked it with my loupe. :wink:

The pressure I used to get the 3,5mm thickness left the plate without
blemishes etc and the offcut I put in the vise couldn't be broken using
hand tools. Very impatient but pleased.

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Re: Springfield Flyer.
« Reply #3293 on: November 15, 2018, 06:18:46 PM »
Being out here in the sticks and the only one in my country with the passion and vision to take on a long car I live a hard life.
From what I read you guys fund your own projects.

My situation is different. I can't afford to import what I need to complete
this dream project with the current exchange rate. With shipping anything I need will cost R22/1USD.

Sleep is a pastime I don't use much. I sit here night after night sending out sponsorship proposals. Taxing on the mental state
but exciting and the more I work the luckier I get. If I had a buck for every American company that turned me down I'd have $5.
Lucky????. Maybe but there's something bigger at work here. I have an idea what it may be but I'm keeping it to myself.


The miracle car is a reality. Most of the time I don't have a clue but I ask the questions and you all come to my aid. Money can't buy
all the the help and motivation and without it I'd be nowhere. Thank you for standing by me. God Bless you all.

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Re: Springfield Flyer.
« Reply #3294 on: November 15, 2018, 08:52:13 PM »
Mike;

One of my father's fellow army officer's favorite saying was "You don't ask, you don't get."

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ
Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

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Re: Springfield Flyer.
« Reply #3295 on: November 16, 2018, 01:03:12 AM »
My observation is that "The Lord helps them that try to help themselves"!!
Miss LIBERTY,  changing T.K.I.  to noise, dust, rust, BLUE HATS & hopefully not scrap!!

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."   Helen Keller

We are going to explore the racing N words NITROUS & NITRO!

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Re: Springfield Flyer.
« Reply #3296 on: November 19, 2018, 01:48:42 PM »
Sparky, we've got priests and nuns in my family on my mother's side.
In addition there's South Africa's first boxing world champion.
You should see my birth certificate. I think they only left Judas out. :-D :-D :-D :-D

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Re: Springfield Flyer.
« Reply #3297 on: November 20, 2018, 09:07:49 AM »
Lineage???   google my great-great grandfather, James Berry...He was a hangman. And of some fame too. :cheers:
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Re: Springfield Flyer.
« Reply #3298 on: November 20, 2018, 09:19:11 AM »
Now you're scaring me Jerry. :-D :-D :-D
So you're coming next year?????.

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Re: Springfield Flyer.
« Reply #3299 on: November 20, 2018, 10:35:57 AM »
Bride says it " Sounds like fun"...latter part of summer perhaps.  PM me . JB
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