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Old 29-06-10, 14:58
Phil Waterman Phil Waterman is offline
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Your efforts deserve a prize in the CMP collecting community, for facilitating accurate reproduction. As to your price for the drawing package it is very modest in deed, if anyone has priced having blue prints copied will know, that's supposing you could get drawings to copy.

About the question of who could reproduce the parts from the drawings. I would advise anyone going to a sheet metal shop go slow, before you sign on the line and/or place a deposit on the work be sure they have experience in work of this type. If you are contracting out the whole job for a completed assemble body, not a big issue as the shop if it is smart will check all the dimensioning before cutting and bending all the parts, because they are the ones who are going to have do all the trimming to align the body as they assemble it. If you are ordering the part and you plan to do the assembly it your self be careful, you are likely to get what ever piece of metal comes out of the metal brake first with little check to see if it matches the drawing. If you are going this route of having a sheet metal shop do all the cutting and bending while you do the assembly gives some real consideration to paying the shop for two hours of time to check the drawings accuracy and assembly logic. Then you have as set of drawings that shop says can be made and assembled, in this way they can not blame mistakes in fabrication on the drawings.

I had some frame components produced from drawings for my C60L though the drawings were clearly marked and dimensioned "out side of bend to out side of bend" they were produced "inside of bend to inside of bend" result being that as the steel was 1/4 inch thick parts were all 1/2 inch to large.
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