Alan B
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| posted on 4/10/08 at 09:34 PM |
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A week or two to finish ?
linky
Yeah right...LOL
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blakep82
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| posted on 4/10/08 at 09:43 PM |
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i don't know... looks close enough to me
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blakep82
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| posted on 4/10/08 at 09:44 PM |
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ooooh, right i see...
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blakep82
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| posted on 4/10/08 at 09:51 PM |
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actually, its a mould to make a fibreglass (or CF?) body for a reventon, so maybe a week or 2 is fair? if you had 2 soloid weeks to put into it maybe?
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BenB
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| posted on 4/10/08 at 10:04 PM |
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Oooooh that's nasty!!!! $5k for a load of pink foam and some bondo???
Taking the pi$$ if you ask me!!!
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Alan B
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| posted on 4/10/08 at 10:06 PM |
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Not even remotely close.....but that's just my opinion....I'd say to get that to a usable plug..500hrs minimum
Interested to hear what other plug builders would estimate......
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blakep82
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| posted on 4/10/08 at 10:09 PM |
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having never built ( or thought about building) one myself...
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hellbent345
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| posted on 4/10/08 at 10:20 PM |
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id love to see a kit based on the reventon, its an amazing looking car but that.... is nowhere near finished. hahahahahahahaahhahahaha long way from
it
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Chippy
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| posted on 4/10/08 at 11:05 PM |
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I would say that a couple of weeks would be a fair time to complete it, as long as you don't mind working 100 hour days. Wow! what a heap of
shite. Cheers Ray
To make a car go faster, just add lightness. Colin Chapman - OR - fit a bigger engine. Chippy
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Volvorsport
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| posted on 4/10/08 at 11:55 PM |
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3 months at least .
www.dbsmotorsport.co.uk
getting dirty under a bus
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donut
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| posted on 5/10/08 at 08:26 AM |
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Stunning looking car !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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smart51
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| posted on 5/10/08 at 08:31 AM |
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I like it, it makes my buck look really good.
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 5/10/08 at 12:13 PM |
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the tube link
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sgraber
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| posted on 6/10/08 at 06:42 PM |
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1 year of weekends and evenings. at least.
Steve Graber
http://www.grabercars.com/
"Quickness through lightness"
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Alan B
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| posted on 6/10/08 at 07:04 PM |
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I somehow expected Steve may have an opinion on this one...it's a LOT of work isn't it?
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andyps
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| posted on 6/10/08 at 10:23 PM |
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On top of all the hours work, surely a shape like that would not be an easy one for using as a mould, all those complex and inverted creases. I could
just imagine laying it all up and then finding you had to destroy everything to release the finished product. Only other alternative would be lots of
small mouldings.
Andy
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less
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kb58
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| posted on 6/10/08 at 10:35 PM |
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A year, assuming about 2 hrs a day. Or take that $5000 and buy a shell already done, keeping the extra 700 hrs of your life as a bonus.
[edit] no... reconsidering what little has been done, make that a couple years, really. To make the rough buck (easy) making it near-perfect (1000
hrs+), making the multi-section molds off it (a few hundred hours), then laying up the first shell (easy.) It's a lot of very, very tedius
work.
[Edited on 10/7/08 by kb58]
Mid-engine Locost - http://www.midlana.com
And the book - http://www.lulu.com/shop/kurt-bilinski/midlana/paperback/product-21330662.html
Kimini - a tube-frame, carbon shell, Honda Prelude VTEC mid-engine Mini: http://www.kimini.com
And its book -
http://www.lulu.com/shop/kurt-bilinski/kimini-how-to-design-and-build-a-mid-engine-sports-car-from-scratch/paperback/product-4858803.html
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sgraber
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| posted on 6/10/08 at 10:45 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Alan B
I somehow expected Steve may have an opinion on this one...it's a LOT of work isn't it?
Indeed, indeed.
I really think it's more than just the number of hours. It's the 'quality' of those hours as Kurt alludes to. Sanding your
life away can either be a meditative experience or living hell on earth. And both can occur at the same time. Not for the faint of heart as 2 hours
per night sanding a big chunk of plaster/fiberglass is a lot different than 2 hours a night playing video games!
Steve Graber
http://www.grabercars.com/
"Quickness through lightness"
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Fred W B
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| posted on 7/10/08 at 05:59 AM |
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quote:
please allow a week or two to finish
Not a *uck. As others have said above, at least a year plus plus as a part time job.
There is no hard skin yet, none of those lines or edges are straight, etc etc. That plug is maybe 30 percent done, if that.
Also, I dought very much if it could be moved without falling to bits anyway.
Cheers
Fred W B
[Edited on 7/10/08 by Fred W B]
You can do it quickly. You can do it cheap. You can do it right. – Pick any two.
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