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Re: CMD Body Panels

Unread post by Mark » April 1st, 2018, 3:29 pm

To me, it looks like high-tech/high dollar equipment!! Hope it is highly profitable for you as it is a mutt needed business.
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Unread post by rickf » April 1st, 2018, 4:43 pm

Have you ever watched the video of the guy that forms the sides the old school way over a thick steel backer pattern? One solid sheet with no cutouts and he hammers it around the backer shrinking and stretching as he goes and when he is done he has a super ridged perfect panel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KXancgN-fk&t=3s

Now this is how us OLD guys did it!!! The problem is I need someone to make me that big mutha form for a 151!
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Unread post by lpcoating » April 5th, 2018, 4:05 pm

New Inspection equipment capable of reverser engineering:

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Unread post by Surveyor » April 5th, 2018, 4:37 pm

:shock: :mrgreen:
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Unread post by rickf » April 5th, 2018, 5:44 pm

Now all you need is the add on toy that actually makes the part!!!!
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Unread post by m3a1 » April 5th, 2018, 6:34 pm

Looks like the thing Doc Brown had on his head at the beginning of Back To The Future!

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Unread post by halftracknut » April 5th, 2018, 7:25 pm

Hook that to a 3D printer and you will have something.....
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Unread post by rickf » April 5th, 2018, 7:49 pm

A 3D printer running a plasma spray welder for the print head. Hmmmmmm. :roll: :roll: :roll:
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Unread post by lpcoating » April 6th, 2018, 8:00 pm

Ran some test side panels today. We'll bend them next week.

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Antici................

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Unread post by lpcoating » April 9th, 2018, 5:19 pm

Working on the print details of some of the parts that get spot welded into the dash. Should have some complete dash panels this week. Also will form up the first round of full side panels. Have some templates being lasered and need to do some checking before I have the stamp die made for the bottom corner radius piece.

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Unread post by Hambone » April 9th, 2018, 6:47 pm

Glad to see you're keeping us old farts in the pictorial loop :D ,great progress, hope you offer that bottom corner radius piece as a repair part eventually, some may not be in for a whole side panel replacement, just a thought.

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Unread post by lpcoating » April 9th, 2018, 7:13 pm

Hambone wrote:Glad to see you're keeping us old farts in the pictorial loop :D ,great progress, hope you offer that bottom corner radius piece as a repair part eventually, some may not be in for a whole side panel replacement, just a thought.
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Unread post by m75 » April 9th, 2018, 9:36 pm

Has any thought been given to offering a dash panel that has a ROPS-ready light switch opening as an option? it would be so much easier to plug in a new dash with the shifted opening already in place to accommodate the ROPS installation.
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Unread post by lpcoating » April 10th, 2018, 6:00 am

m75 wrote:Has any thought been given to offering a dash panel that has a ROPS-ready light switch opening as an option? it would be so much easier to plug in a new dash with the shifted opening already in place to accommodate the ROPS installation.
I would need more information as I do not have access to one with ROPS.
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