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| Zadig:
Smashing thread Joe and lovely work. Did you give any thought to machining the strakes in the rear rims like you have done with the tyre bands on the front? Your choice of riveting separate strakes would have been mine also, but I'm curious if you were tempted as I might have been. If you've already mentioned it in your thread and I've missed it - sorry. |
| Joe d:
Hi Zadig. Thanks for looking in. I must admit that it never crossed my mind to machine the strakes. Interesting idea, essentially cutting a 35 start thread, once each of left and right handed.... :bang: lots of opportunities to mis-read the threading dial! Sounds like something that Rob Wilson would do :lol: Cheers, Joe |
| Zadig:
I was thinking more along the lines of a rotary table mounted vertically and at an angle, machining small slots for the gap between the strakes. Keeping the same setup you could drill dummy rivet pattern in to keep the inside of the wheel looking authentic. It was only curiosity and idle chit chat, no criticism on the wonderful work you are doing. |
| Joe d:
No criticism felt, I like these intellectual exercises in figuring out alternate ways of doing things. This would be an awfully boring hobby if there was one and one only way to do things! Don't be shy to post ideas, (and criticism when warranted!) Cheers, Joe |
| DMIOM:
--- Quote from: Zadig on March 20, 2015, 03:27:36 AM ---Smashing thread Joe and lovely work. Did you give any thought to machining the strakes in the rear rims like you have done with the tyre bands on the front? Your choice of riveting separate strakes would have been mine also, but I'm curious if you were tempted as I might have been. If you've already mentioned it in your thread and I've missed it - sorry. --- End quote --- I'm not a model builder - but I would have thought there's quite a big difference between cutting the relatively tiny slit between tread blocks, and machining away maybe 70% of the area between the strakes - the latter would be doable on a CNC mill with a 4th axis but a heck of a job if done manually..... Dave |
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