X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: <13brv3@bellsouth.net> Received: from imf23aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.71] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0) with ESMTP id 813033 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 23:52:48 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.152.59.71; envelope-from=13brv3@bellsouth.net Received: from ibm56aec.bellsouth.net ([65.6.194.9]) by imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20051102171208.HQAF26224.imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm56aec.bellsouth.net> for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 12:12:08 -0500 Received: from rd ([65.6.194.9]) by ibm56aec.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20051102171207.FMCS12933.ibm56aec.bellsouth.net@rd> for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 12:12:07 -0500 From: "Russell Duffy" <13brv3@bellsouth.net> To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: Richard Sohn's housings Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 11:12:08 -0600 Message-ID: <000701c5dfd0$8e9ca7b0$6101a8c0@rd> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0008_01C5DF9E.440237B0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01C5DF9E.440237B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable It may be that Racing Beat has had their production schedule held up by the laws of physics. =20 Hi Ernest, =20 My understanding is that RB has been making the rear, and intermediate aluminum housing for years, but they never quite got around to finishing = the machining details for the front housing. From what I was told, they = were only a couple months away from being able to do make the front housing = too, but the project was sidelined, and they never got back to work on it. =20 =20 My most recent conversation with RB indicated that they aren't making = any of them at the moment, because the plasma coating they have applied to the housings was costing them over $1000 per housing, JUST for the coating. Since the housings were a low production run item, they weren't exactly cheap to produce even before the coating. The bottom line was that they could do it, but the price would be over $2k, per housing, and they = didn't think they'd sell enough to make it worthwhile. =20 =20 There's still hope, and if there were enough people willing to commit to buying a set, I'd bet we could get them to make some more, and finish = the front housing. They also said the price of plasma coating went up dramatically, because of yet another one of those wacko California environmental laws. They were at least half heartedly looking for a = company outside of CA to do the coatings at a more reasonable price. =20 =20 Cheers, Rusty=20 ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01C5DF9E.440237B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message

It may be that Racing
Beat has had their production = schedule=20 held up by the laws of physics.

 
Hi=20 Ernest,
 
My = understanding is that=20 RB has been making the rear, and intermediate aluminum housing for = years, but=20 they never quite got around to finishing the machining details for the = front=20 housing.  From what I was told, they were only a couple months away = from=20 being able to do make the front housing too, but the project was = sidelined, and=20 they never got back to work on it. 
 
My most = recent=20 conversation with RB indicated that they aren't making any of them at = the=20 moment, because the plasma coating they have applied to the housings was = costing=20 them over $1000 per housing, JUST for the coating.  Since the = housings were=20 a low production run item, they weren't exactly cheap to produce even = before the=20 coating.  The bottom line was that they could do it, but the price = would be=20 over $2k, per housing, and they didn't think they'd sell enough to make = it=20 worthwhile. 
 
There's = still hope, and=20 if there were enough people willing to commit to buying a set, I'd bet = we could=20 get them to make some more, and finish the front housing.  They = also said=20 the price of plasma coating went up dramatically, because of yet another = one of=20 those wacko California environmental laws.  They were at least half = heartedly looking for a company outside of CA to do the coatings at a = more=20 reasonable price. 
 
Cheers,
Rusty =





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