JBINTX
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Dang speed holes slowed you down……..Brian is waiting for me to catch up to where he is at in his build.
Dang speed holes slowed you down……..Brian is waiting for me to catch up to where he is at in his build.
Thanks; Cool article. Its kind of amazing how good of an eye people actually have for symmetry, which can be broken down between both the shape and positive/negative space. Quite often the simplest of designs work the best and are the most versatile.I remember reading a post back in the day on Reddit or imgur or somewhere picking apart a bunch of company's logos and pointing out design incongruities. I think you've done a lot better than some other folks who have entire design departments behind their logos. Looks good!
edit: I know I've seen this done for companies but I did find this similar breakdown for college sports logos
edit edit: this college logo breakdown is even better
I’m looking at the Langmuir tables with water as they offer a very reputable product in a smaller form factor. Probably going with a Primeweld Cut60. I’m not planning on running it all day or for big production runs. As it sits if I either sell the sandrail or relocate it across the shop, I can run the plasma table right against an open garage door. I was debating on some industrial curtains with a reasonable standoff to isolate the area slightly. not quite sure yet.Very nice! You're going to love dialing in the plasma, similar to dialing in the 3D printers but different. Design around the capabilities of plasma and you'll be fine. Our expectations for edge finish and hole quality was too high and it lead to lots of frustration. While I was able to improve the overall quality of the cut it was never enough for a few of the guys I worked with, which was one of the reasons we upgraded to a laser less than 2 years later.
What size plasma cutter you thinking of going with? When I bought a plasma table for work we started with a 85amp but within a month swapped it out with a 105amp hypertherm. We had too many runs hitting the duty cycle of the cutter. Which ever plasma you go with check out the price of the consumables, as soon as quality would start to drop we would change out the consumables and quality would go back to normal. The nozzles were the main consumable that was changed out the most.
I assume you'll do a water table? We went with a downdraft mainly so we could cut aluminum on the table as well. I do not recommend going with an open setup, unless you completely seal off the table from the rest of your shop and put good air filtration in.
You going to get an air dryer for your new compressor?
I’m thinking I’m going to focus most of my customer work for now on cutting jobs on one-off projects ranging from 20-16 gauge steel. I am proficient in 2-D design and I enjoy it, so I figure that will require the least amount of overhead. I also see doing production runs of smaller parts using 1/4” steel. If I could just go laser, I would in a **** heartbeat. I just don’t see the feasibility of going into debt at this point. I still have other tooling I need that I have yet to purchase.Highly recommend at least a water table to cut down on the dust. Its worse than you can imagine. Operator forgot to turn on the downdraft fan a few times and it would fill our huge shop with dust and smoke in a matter seconds. After the 4th time I wired the fan to come one with a relay that was trigger when the machine was set to run a job.
Figured you wouldn't be running all day, just be aware of the duty cycles for whichever plasma unit you buy. For example on the hypertherm 85, duty cycle was 60% or 6 minutes at 85 amps at 104 degrees, but that was at 3 phase 400v. So while 85amps was enough to cut absolutely everything we needed, the 105amp unit provided a duty cycle much higher especially at 45amps for majority of what we cut (3/16" steel and thinner).
Not having a dryer would be nice.
I have been researching splitter design for quite some time. I do understand its purpose and also the point of it being consumable. Even without the splitter, any impact on the front of this car is not going to be favorable whatsoever. This is part of the reason that DF redesigned the replaceable front radiator mounting clip back around frame #60. I also do not plan on road racing this car.A few things on the front splitter, first, 1/4” solid aluminum is way too much. Splitters in the racing world at least are considered a consumable. Meaning if you run one, expect that it can be damaged or ripped off. Continuing on that you would rather the splitter give on an impact rather than break the bolts or mounting loose. I would go with 1/8” aluminum or aluminite.
Second, the angle you show in the pictures is a heavy angle and yes would increase down force, but will also create a lot of drag. I like that you are planning on making it adjustable but it should be generally flat. To that point, the one that RRtoys is using bolts under the car and can still be adjusted via washers/spacers if another angle is wanted.
The last thing, in the event there is an impact, your design will put it into the body work and potentially into the radiator.
I wrote all this in the best of intentions and I do want to be helpful.
I bought a splitter for my Miata on Black Friday and it is sitting in my garage, I am almost afraid to use it because I have seen what happens in the event of a hard impact.
I read through his posts. I really like how he extended the flat zone along the entire car as well as the side splitters.I would try to adapt SACTX splitter design with your wing design. It would cover the bottom and add more aero. It’s something we have both talked about, but haven’t implemented due to the satisfactory results of the splitter. More downforce Would be better, but it’s good the way it sits, so it’s a back burner project for us. View attachment 29685View attachment 29687
Yes. I just have not gotten around to finalizing the proper offsets and mounting them yet. Been busy with this front spoiler.Did you ever decide if you'd be willing to share the STls for your side panel mounting brackets?