FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] Re: O.T. Panel beaters - Was: User-friendliness or lack thereof in Arachne

["Peter Lawrence" <peterl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 04:20:02 -0500, Eric S. Emerson wrote:

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>  As you say, there have been cars built with plastic
> panels that are/were very resistant to minor dents but
> most plastic used on cars so far is not real durable.
> The tough plastics cost too much and engineers are
> just learning how to use them appropriately.  The
> first Corvettes built back in the '50s had a lot of
> problems with structural body failure because the
> engineers didn't know how to use the fiberglass
> plastic appropriately. It was a new concept and
> they needed experience designing  and building with
> plastc/fiberglass composite materials.

The largest problem wasn't that they couldn't make them tough enough but
that when they did, it had too much "give" (elasticity). You got things
like doors that wouldn't close because weight changes had made too much
deformation for the tolerances. PML.
GST+NPT=JOBS

I.e., a Goods and Services Tax (or almost any other broad based production 
tax), with a Negative Payroll Tax, promotes employme
t. 

See http://member.netlink.com.au/~peterl/publicns.html#AFRLET2 and the other 
items on that page for some reasons why. 

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