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5th February 2015, 20:38
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Sorry, just spotted Jeff4 has just posted this link too.
Must learn how to type faster.
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5th February 2015, 20:58
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I was only 8 minutes faster and I don't even have a type- diploma!
But better 2 times, then not at all!
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5th February 2015, 21:07
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after about 47 seconds
a 250SWB...?
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6th February 2015, 09:25
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A Maserati 3500GT. Another of my favourite cars.
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6th February 2015, 09:41
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Opportunity for a Coop De Ville joke here, but I shall resist.
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6th February 2015, 11:22
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I spent ages reading his Testarossa one. Very interesting.
There are quite a few companies doing similar. There is one near Salisbury who scan cars and prduce a buck from that. They can also do it from a computer model.
I quite fancy scanning a few nice cars and then 'tweaking' the dimensions to fit ones I can afford. They knock out the buck and I get it skinned in aluminium or they can do bucks for fibreglass too.
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6th February 2015, 14:24
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"Skinned in aluminium" is a throw-away phrase that could cost up to £100,000 on an English wheel WCA!!
Get the fibre glass one!!
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6th February 2015, 15:34
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Don't worry Scottie - these are pipe dreams for the foreseeable...
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6th February 2015, 18:23
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scottie22
"Skinned in aluminium" is a throw-away phrase that could cost up to £100,000 on an English wheel WCA!!
Get the fibre glass one!!
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Naaa, the English wheel's the easy part, far easier than messing with bits of glass strand and resin, the hard bit is welding all the sections of panel together. If a panel can be made in one piece, like a door panel, then it really isn't that hard, or slow. I rolled the boot lid on my Berlinetta in about 3 hours.
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6th February 2015, 21:39
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The bonnet on my Z300S is one piece. Happy to buy you a beer if you can knock that out in ali
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7th February 2015, 05:46
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Originally Posted by WorldClassAccident
The bonnet on my Z300S is one piece. Happy to buy you a beer if you can knock that out in ali
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What does it look like? Haven't had a beer in years! (We don't seem to have a beer icon?)
If it's similar to this it shouldn't be too hard.
http://www.ffcars.com/forums/2642315-post17.html
I think the scoop would have to be made separately and attached, one way or another... The actual main panel should be fairly easy.
But it really needs the host body in the same place as the english wheel, which is a bit big and heavy to move easily.
Either that or a buck? However, I have a Marlin to finish by the end of the Easter school holidays, I am told, after that perhaps? I like a challenge.
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7th February 2015, 07:23
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Errr, 8ValveEd.....when WCA says "bonnet", think Jag E type style complete front end...!
Loving your car by the way.....
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7th February 2015, 08:03
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Um.. I was joking. The 'bonnet' is a single piece covering everythiing in front of the windscreen
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7th February 2015, 08:24
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Mmmmmmmm that should work out at 20,000 hours labour and cost around £120, 000!!!!!!!!
Don't get you hopes up World-Class, I think your beer is quite safe for a while!
Besides the cost, it really would not look any different now would it?
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7th February 2015, 08:30
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Quote:
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Um.. I was joking. The 'bonnet' is a single piece covering everythiing in front of the windscreen
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I sort of twigged you were winding me up!
It can be done, even by novices, this link is to an 'E' Type, I was looking for another build which shows what a first timer can achieve.
http://allmetalshaping.com/showthread.php?t=10378
Found the thread... As fas I know this guy had never built a car before. His creation is amazing. It was my inspiration to build my own English wheel and get into metal shaping. It really isn't that hard, it just looks it.
http://allmetalshaping.com/showthread.php?t=145
Last edited by 8 Valve Ed; 7th February 2015 at 08:39..
Reason: Add link.
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7th February 2015, 16:34
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I am tempted to try but not sure how much I want to spend discovering I am incompetent at something else...
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9th February 2015, 14:22
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9th February 2015, 16:47
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Very tasty, I agree your style of body would be rather difficult, a bit like a learner trying to swim the English Chanel but it doesn't need to cost a packet.
I would say my English Wheel set me back less than £200, I have just treated myself to a shrinker/stretcher which was a little over the £100 but apart from that the cost is quite modest. I have started making a tool to make louvers and I want to build myself a Bead Roller, which will probably be all I need. I don't plan to take up body building, when I no longer need them I will probably pass them on. Although my son Michael may have other ideas...
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