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Alan B

posted on 4/10/08 at 09:34 PM Reply With Quote
A week or two to finish ?

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blakep82

posted on 4/10/08 at 09:43 PM Reply With Quote
i don't know... looks close enough to me






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blakep82

posted on 4/10/08 at 09:44 PM Reply With Quote


ooooh, right i see...





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blakep82

posted on 4/10/08 at 09:51 PM Reply With Quote
actually, its a mould to make a fibreglass (or CF?) body for a reventon, so maybe a week or 2 is fair? if you had 2 soloid weeks to put into it maybe?





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BenB

posted on 4/10/08 at 10:04 PM Reply With Quote
Oooooh that's nasty!!!! $5k for a load of pink foam and some bondo???

Taking the pi$$ if you ask me!!!

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Alan B

posted on 4/10/08 at 10:06 PM Reply With Quote
Not even remotely close.....but that's just my opinion....I'd say to get that to a usable plug..500hrs minimum

Interested to hear what other plug builders would estimate......

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blakep82

posted on 4/10/08 at 10:09 PM Reply With Quote
having never built ( or thought about building) one myself...





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hellbent345

posted on 4/10/08 at 10:20 PM Reply With Quote
id love to see a kit based on the reventon, its an amazing looking car but that.... is nowhere near finished. hahahahahahahaahhahahaha long way from it
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Chippy

posted on 4/10/08 at 11:05 PM Reply With Quote
I would say that a couple of weeks would be a fair time to complete it, as long as you don't mind working 100 hour days. Wow! what a heap of shite. Cheers Ray





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Volvorsport

posted on 4/10/08 at 11:55 PM Reply With Quote
3 months at least .





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donut

posted on 5/10/08 at 08:26 AM Reply With Quote
Stunning looking car !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





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smart51

posted on 5/10/08 at 08:31 AM Reply With Quote
I like it, it makes my buck look really good.
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mangogrooveworkshop

posted on 5/10/08 at 12:13 PM Reply With Quote
the tube link






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sgraber

posted on 6/10/08 at 06:42 PM Reply With Quote
1 year of weekends and evenings. at least.





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Alan B

posted on 6/10/08 at 07:04 PM Reply With Quote
I somehow expected Steve may have an opinion on this one...it's a LOT of work isn't it?
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andyps

posted on 6/10/08 at 10:23 PM Reply With Quote
On top of all the hours work, surely a shape like that would not be an easy one for using as a mould, all those complex and inverted creases. I could just imagine laying it all up and then finding you had to destroy everything to release the finished product. Only other alternative would be lots of small mouldings.





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kb58

posted on 6/10/08 at 10:35 PM Reply With Quote
A year, assuming about 2 hrs a day. Or take that $5000 and buy a shell already done, keeping the extra 700 hrs of your life as a bonus.

[edit] no... reconsidering what little has been done, make that a couple years, really. To make the rough buck (easy) making it near-perfect (1000 hrs+), making the multi-section molds off it (a few hundred hours), then laying up the first shell (easy.) It's a lot of very, very tedius work.


[Edited on 10/7/08 by kb58]





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sgraber

posted on 6/10/08 at 10:45 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Alan B
I somehow expected Steve may have an opinion on this one...it's a LOT of work isn't it?


Indeed, indeed.

I really think it's more than just the number of hours. It's the 'quality' of those hours as Kurt alludes to. Sanding your life away can either be a meditative experience or living hell on earth. And both can occur at the same time. Not for the faint of heart as 2 hours per night sanding a big chunk of plaster/fiberglass is a lot different than 2 hours a night playing video games!





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Fred W B

posted on 7/10/08 at 05:59 AM Reply With Quote
quote:

please allow a week or two to finish



Not a *uck. As others have said above, at least a year plus plus as a part time job.

There is no hard skin yet, none of those lines or edges are straight, etc etc. That plug is maybe 30 percent done, if that.

Also, I dought very much if it could be moved without falling to bits anyway.

Cheers

Fred W B



[Edited on 7/10/08 by Fred W B]





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