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Originally Posted by Bandit50
Going off tangent?
Seems like your impatient about something? What with the
"Talking about it for years" statement.
Yeah, I am aware. Did you even read what everyone else posted before you jump on the alloy topic? It really seems like you didn't.
I have methods, they may not be exactly lab standards, but they will suffice and considering I know what the lab equipment is. Might give you a good idea as to how I am going to do this. The fun of this whole thing, is measuring and drafting it myself. Was that not communicated well or something? I mean this is the 9th time I am saying this now, and the title kind means something to the project. I mean, I know i didn't name this V2 and V3 custom project build. 
Why make a machine do it? Where is the fun in that? At least Cactus knew that -.- Great, welcome the level, I guess. |
Lets not get carried away. Again, I think its a neat project. Just providing input. It all started with a disagreement with something you said earlier, about 'being able to easily temper metals as long as its not alloy" along those lines.
The whole point of CAD is precision. It becomes a pointless exercise to hand wavingly measure and CAD gearset locations. Doing so, you are practicing techniques that are no better than those 'crap imports' you were just blasting earlier.
I'm sure since V2 gearboxes were originally designed in Japan, its probably metric so you might be able to round off to the nearest denominator that makes sense while using only hand tools. In any case, you'd best use a CMM to get those coordinates anyway to verify before you CAD it, as I'm sure you know. And as I'm sure you know, CMM isn't just 'getting a machine to do it'. A CMM can grab the entire geometry, but intelligently using a CMM and skilled CADing speeds up the reverse engineering process. Basically you just want dimensions and coordinates of critical features and go straight to CAD.
Anyway good luck.