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Just saw a technique worth sharing: cut tube to approximate length fill with water freeze solid bend on a jig/brake mount one end of bent tube in a clamping...
What does the Ball Bearings do? Push the Ice out? Or does this help smooth out the bends? The ice sounds like a neat idea (assuming you have access to a big...
Neat stuff! I watched a production operation at a car port manufacturer which was bending about 2" SQUARE tubing: They inserted a greased "string of beads"...
Elton, The "beads on a string" thing is called a mandrel. When exhaust header companies talk about mandrel bent tubing, that's what is involved. Without the...
Ron, The first ball is a little bit larger than the tubing and serves as a sizing die. It produces a finished diameter, a uniform radius around the bend and...
... tube. Good reference: http://www.vansantent.com/definitions.htm *I had just never seen SQUARE mandrel bending . . What's always been tricky to me is the...
One of the Saturday morning hot rod shows was showing a bent rectangular tube frame. The typical section over the rear axle for a North American muscle car....
... The Elise frame rails need a bend, towards the back of the car. I seem to remember it is expensive to do and one of the goals when cost reducing was to...
A group of people I work with are competing for the DARPA prize. Its a pretty cool undertanking. They finished 7th (I think) in the '05 event using a Jeep...
Tony, This hurts, State College is only about 200 miles from me. The event reads as something I would have enjoyed very much, but I have some prior aviation...
Check the following Web Link out: http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/05/mystery-supercar-may-be-all-new-lotus-codenamed-project-eagle/ Nice pic! -- Tom...
And how do we get to view these delights? ... From: lotus-cars@yahoogroups.com [mailto:lotus-cars@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Blackford Sent: 14...
maybe Netflix? Some of the oldies do show up on DVD once in a while - no real plot, just lots of great shots from the earlier days of racing. It was just on...
... Actually, it was made in the late 60 (IMDB says 1968). It was on Speed this weekend, but its running length is 51 minutes, so it must have been edited to...
1968? Wow - no wonder the cars look so current! That was the time we were racing at the same events as P.L., and sat around a few campfires with him... Just...
Hi just letting everyone know that we have a Lotus parts sale going on at the store for the rest of the month and also we have lowered prices on a lot of items...
A local Mercedes/Nissan dealer has a 2003.5 Esprit V8 in the showroom... the "last" model. Black-n-Tan, 1100 total miles, looks factory new. Feldmann...
The IIHS recently published the latest insurance statistics http://www.iihs.org/research/hldi/composite_intro.html The IIHS compares vehicles by class, and...
Given there are so few Esprits on the road, I guess this means Willie's track day is the reason the insurance premium on my 1999 V8 is so high! Joe From:...
I had been wondering when the insurance companies would catch on to the high repair costs. I mean, parallel park your Elise and you're facing a $6-8k repair...
Hey guys, I just purchased an 04 orange lotus esprit. Really excited to get it, traded my porsche carrera for it. I am willy quintana's, little brother, so I...
