[burpg] Re: Machining Stuff for the Nitrous Transporter
- From: Alessandro Cesar Dias Gomes Filho <acgfilho@xxxxxx>
- To: burpg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 23:17:31 -0500
CORRECTION:
Bob Sjostrom's shop may actually be a more adequate place to turn the Nylon
tubes, whoever wants to cut the big piece of aluminum can also turn the
tubes down and bore them out and probably cut them on the same trip. Just
FYI.
Alessandro
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Alessandro Cesar Dias Gomes Filho <
acgfilho@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> The Nitrous Transporter is almost finished, all we need to do is machine
> few things and assemble them to complete it. Unfortunately, I have very
> little time this week, so I need some help to get it done. If you want to
> get your hands dirty or just feel like you're not doing enough or want to
> do more in RPG, then this is a great opportunity to make some stuff.
>
> 1) Someone needs to take the green tube of Cast Nylon to Joe's shop in the
> basement of 110 Cummington Mall (under the wind tunnel) and turn the
> outside diameter down to 1.500" and bore the inside diameter out to 0.88",
> then cut 4 0.75" long segments and 8 0.50" long segments form the tube. The
> tube is in the wind tunnel on top of an aluminum piece on a green cart by
> the cabinet. Take the longer, thinner tube (~8" long) and work on that.
>
> 2) There is a very long piece of aluminum at the tinker lab that I need
> cut. I started a cut but couldn't finish it on the mill. The best place to
> finish this would be on Bob Sjostrom's bandsaw. The piece is about 12"x~64"
> and maybe 3/8" thick. It needs to be cut into a 12"x30" plate and taken to
> the wind tunnel (the rest of it goes back to tinker).
>
> Let me know if you are interested in doing this stuff. If you have any
> questions about anything please email me and I'll do my best to answer them.
>
> Best,
>
> Alessandro
> acgfilho@xxxxxx
>
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