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Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 9:51:46 -0700
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To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: intake tubing
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---- wrjjrs@aol.com wrote: 
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> Tony,
> 
> The sad part here is that is IS a good idea. A good idea by itself though isn't necessarily comercially viable.
> 
> Bill Jepson
> 
> 
Bill 

I think you are right 
unfortunately all of the intake manifolds I have seen are sand cast aluminum. Which can be very heavy. I just thought that 
an extruted oval port tubing welded to a plate would be 
impressively lite.  The problem here is not the money to make the tooling and get the extrusion, the problem is the minimum order. I can't have 300lbs of extruded aluminum tubing sitting in my garage my wife will hange me. Not to mention I have no room for that. What I may do is send the tubing to Wolf Aircraft they'll stock it there and then when someone needs it bent they can bend it however you want it. There I go again with my bright ideas. 

Tony