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Re: What you could do...

Posted by bdk on Wed Jan 23, 2002 12:15:50 PM

In reply top Re: Thinking about what I would do on OUR restoration posted by Cees Broere on Wed Jan 23, 2002 06:46:27 AM

If you had the original manufacturers drawing, you would have to redraw it to be able to create a numerical control program to do the machining. If 3-dimensional computer models were already available, that would make the job a lot easier.

Now all we need are some volunteers to redraw all these 2-dimensional factory drawings into 3D models or wireframes.

I think that most of the cost associated with these things is the creation of the electronic data, not the materials or the actual machining of the part. If you were to pay a professional engineering firm to do it, it would cost tens of thousands of dollars. If a group of AutoCad (for instance) savvy enthusiasts were to do it for the good of the cause, it would make this venture much more feasible. A set of standards would need to be drawn up (or pirated from industry or textbooks) to make the work consistant between volunteers.

What does everyone else think?

BK

: Hello Paul,
:
: As far as I know most of the modern day aircraft factories
: already use this kind of machinery.
:
: The Halifax instrumentpanel that I am building is an examp
: le. A friend of mine works in the commercial avaiation bus
: iness.
:
: I gave him the drawing, the measurements of which he fed i
: nto a computer programme. A computer guided machine uses t
: his information to punch out the complete panel. All I hav
: e to do is to clean up the edges. Marvellous stuff.
:
: Cheers
:
: Cees

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