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« on: December 03, 2008, 20:11:08 pm »
Hi Everybody,

As the most of you know, I have to redo my alum panels.
I'm looking around witch kind of material I should use, Stian talked me about Aircraft alum, this should be much stronger than the standard alum plates.
If their is anybody with experience in this matter, please tell me.


Thx.
 
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« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2008, 20:47:15 pm »
There is a guy in France that made alu panels for our VW's.

http://blackhands.skynetblogs.be/  (Edit: I' ve took the wrong links  Roll Eyes )

There also is a member of the DAS that makes some nice panels. I can't remember his name but he has the Fastback with the Corvair engine.

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« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2008, 21:44:21 pm »
Quote from: j-f on December 03, 2008, 20:47:15 pm
There is a guy in France that made alu panels for our VW's.

http://blackhands.skynetblogs.be/  (Edit: I took the wrong links  Roll Eyes )

There also is a member of the DAS that makes some nice panels. I can't remember his name but he has the Fastback with the Corvair engine.



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« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2008, 21:45:23 pm »
Quote from: speedwell on December 03, 2008, 21:44:21 pm
Quote from: j-f on December 03, 2008, 20:47:15 pm
There is a guy in France that made alu panels for our VW's.

http://blackhands.skynetblogs.be/  (Edit: I took the wrong links  Roll Eyes )

There also is a member of the DAS that makes some nice panels. I can't remember his name but he has the Fastback with the Corvair engine.



emerson

That's it.  Wink
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« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2008, 19:45:20 pm »
Is their anybody who has a telephone number from Emerson.
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« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2008, 19:54:45 pm »
Quote from: sven on December 04, 2008, 19:45:20 pm
Is their anybody who has a telephone number from Emerson.

pm sent  Wink
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« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2008, 22:34:47 pm »
Sven-
Ric @ Bigwigracecars does some amazing work,he uses 6061-T4 in .032” for the interiors.5052 is probably the most common alloy,and works just fine.If you can get 3003, it’s really soft, and you can do just about anything in that alloy without much distortion.

-Stian
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« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2008, 23:57:56 pm »
hallo sven,

i work on an airport and i see guys working with aircraft alu, they told me and showed me when you would like to bend it
you have to be more careful with it because it crack easier than normal alu.

henk!!!
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« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2008, 18:17:52 pm »
the Aircraft alum is 7050 or 7075 but is not available in sheet, just in plate. We used 5754 for price an easy to obtain it!

Thx j-f for the link

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« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2008, 18:58:41 pm »
Quote from: pig1200 on December 05, 2008, 18:17:52 pm

Thx j-f for the link


cedric

You made great job, I follow you blog each weeks and find a lot's of inspiration.  Wink Wink
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« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2008, 22:26:29 pm »
Quote from: pig1200 on December 05, 2008, 18:17:52 pm
the Aircraft alum is 7050 or 7075 but is not available in sheet, just in plate. We used 5754 for price an easy to obtain it!

Thx j-f for the link

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I can recommend cedrics work, I had some made, there was a small problem, this was no problem he made another set and dropped them off at eBI, never met him, as I was always too busy at the show.

Awesome work.
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« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2008, 15:29:15 pm »
Quote from: speedwell on December 04, 2008, 19:54:45 pm
Quote from: sven on December 04, 2008, 19:45:20 pm
Is their anybody who has a telephone number from Emerson.

pm sent  Wink
have you receive the mail Huh
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« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2008, 19:30:51 pm »
Yes I have, thx.
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« Reply #13 on: December 12, 2008, 11:39:59 am »
you could use S1C for non-structual panels as it bends really well, has fairly good rigidity and cuts nicely. If you are swaging panels, S1C is easy to bead-roll. It is readily available off the shelf. For structual panels NS3 is a good choice. It's quite tough, but cuts reasonably well and shapes well with an English wheel. It folds pretty good, too. Both of these grades of ali respond well to annealing with oxy-accetylene. We use these grades of aluminium on historic sports cars such as Jaguar D-Types etc. These ali types weld really well with oxy-accetylene, too. Not sure if the codes of the aluminium are just UK codes or international codes.

Duralumin (aircraft stuff) is very expensive, hard to work due to the high copper content (about 12%, from memory...) and has the tendency to crack along tight fold lines. It is also tricky to bead roll (will make your swaging machine groan!). It fatigues with age, too. I would save yourself grief and time by avoiding this unecessary metal for your car. Matt
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« Reply #14 on: December 12, 2008, 20:36:04 pm »
Thanks Matt
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« Reply #15 on: November 13, 2014, 11:03:57 am »
Is there any company in Europe doing nice ali panels for race cars?

Cheers,
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« Reply #16 on: November 13, 2014, 17:02:46 pm »
Quote from: Basti on November 13, 2014, 11:03:57 am
Is there any company in Europe doing nice ali panels for race cars?

Cheers,
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« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2014, 08:59:41 am »
Quote from: richie on November 13, 2014, 17:02:46 pm
Quote from: Basti on November 13, 2014, 11:03:57 am
Is there any company in Europe doing nice ali panels for race cars?

Cheers,
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What Richie said.
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« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2014, 09:44:33 am »
Thanks everybody...!
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