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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: <tonyslongez@cox.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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
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