RE: RE: R/C suggestion

["Fry, Larry" <LEF@chem-tronics.com>]

Neal-
  Those highly-detailed bodies could only have been formed on a multi-piece
plug/mold/master.  Very expensive.  Only feasible if you are buidling (and
selling!) thousands of bodies.  
'Course, if we only want a few, hand-built bodies, then forming the bodies
in two pieces, joining them after forming, might be an option.....?

Larry  sandiego16V

-----Original Message-----
From: Neal Tovsen [mailto:res00ffj@verizon.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 6:13 AM
To: Fry, Larry
Cc: Ben Channard; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: RE: R/C suggestion


Actually, I thought that about 6 or 10 years ago they had developed a
process for forming undercuts in lexan. The comparatively high-quality lexan
bodies from Tamiya and others definitely have some shapes like this.

Of course, it is probably too expensive to have a setup like this in the
home, and the BoLink body we're trying to get was designed in the early 80s
with the old technology...

Neal

> 
> From: "Fry, Larry" <LEF@chem-tronics.com>
> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 06:03:31 -0700
> To: Ben Channard <zeroid@hotmail.com>, scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: RE: R/C suggestion
> 
> Ben-
>   The vacuum-forming process will not allow the detail that you are
probably
> seeking.  The plug/master/model must allow the vacu-formed part to
separate
> from the master after forming.
> This means the master cannot have any "undercut" areas that will cause the
> plastic to "lock" onto the master during forming.  This lack of undercut
is
> called draft. 
>   One could build in some of the detail you want, but the body would have
to
> be built as two pieces that would subsequently have to be joined.  This
> would double or triple the cost to the consumer and yield a
> less-than-esthetically-pleasing car body.
>   I could carve a 1/10 master of a MkI or MkII, but the detail would be no
> better than what is now commercially available.
> 
> Larry  sandiego16V
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Channard [mailto:zeroid@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 5:47 AM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: R/C suggestion
> 
> 
>      I have no R/C experience but after reading about 1) the desire for a 
> 1/10 scale model; 2) the alleged ease of vacu-forming; 3) the seeming lack

> of detail of the actual model, could one of our more artistically endowed 
> members carve out a 1/10 scale form and use it to pump out low buck
copies?
> 
> Same artiste might also make a Mk.II which should get some mouths a 
> droolin'.  Any would-be Rodin's up for the challenge?  benton----
> 
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