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I'm working on an automotive intake manifold which will be sand cast. The original plan was to do 350 and T6 heat treat it. However, I was down at the foundry today discussing the project and just generally trying to see what we can do to save a few bucks, and they suggested pouring...
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I am working on a design where I must seal 40psi or so of air pressure on a relatively small chamber (4" x 13" flange oval shape)... I don't really have room for an O ring seal so my intent was to use a cut organic fiber gasket which fits around the bolt pattern.
My question is...
Hi guys... I have a somewhat complex (to me anyways) deal, that I'm not totally sure how to tackle.
I've got what we'll call a lofted duct, which needs to meet a flange. The duct needs to immediately start to turn and form from round to oval, as soon as it starts. At the same time, it needs to...
I wasn't really sure what the best forum would be to put this in, but since I use solidworks- and I need to get this info into solidworks- I figured this would be the best spot.
I've got some complex flanges with odd, asymmetrical bolt patterns to reverse engineer. I do not have access to a...
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I'm in a bit of a bind needing to have a good model from this laser scanned surface in about 10 days. I also have only worked with surfaces a few times, and they were easy, "from scratch" surfaces, not this complicated thing.
In any case, I had this part laser scanned and was...
Hello there guys. I've got here a high pressure fuel pump which runs directly on a camshaft with a small flat tappet lifter / cam follower. The factory has gone so far as to DLC coat them, but regardless the life is short. When people put a larger fuel pump on there, all hell breaks loose.
The...
