X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com X-SpamCatcher-Score: 50 [XX] (67%) URL: contains host with port number (33%) BODY: contains stock spam words Return-Path: Received: from ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com ([24.25.9.102] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.9) with ESMTP id 2065608 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 24 May 2007 14:09:03 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=24.25.9.102; envelope-from=eanderson@carolina.rr.com Received: from edward2 (cpe-024-074-103-061.carolina.res.rr.com [24.74.103.61]) by ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l4OI8Fde028752 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 14:08:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <001301c79e2e$c6e50310$2402a8c0@edward2> From: "Ed Anderson" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" References: Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: intake tubing Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 14:10:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Tony, I certainly agree with Bill. No one wants to see you (or anyone else) stuck with several thousand dollars of paper weights in your garage. Sure you will sell some of them, but making a few hundred dollars off a several thousand investment is certain not going to make the wife happy. Don't let this deter you from offering ideas, its a good one, just the environment at this time is probably not conducive to a profitable (or even break even) venture. But, hey, by simply having such tubing for sale, you may create a market for it, but I think it will take time (and space if you are going to store them). Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 12:51 PM Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: intake tubing > > ---- wrjjrs@aol.com wrote: >> >> 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 > > -- > Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > Archive and UnSub: > http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html