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Nillaice
| | Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 02:54 am: | 
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Stearmandriver, you made me laugh. thanks, and welcome to the addiction. now stop reading this and go ride! |
Guard_rail
| | Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 03:24 am: |
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Jasbiz where do you get he aluminum from?
Dave ? Don't you remember what chris rock said in one of his last comedy specials. "N!&&@$ love shiny things
freight doggy what the hell is that s'pose to mean....? But you are right though it's a Philly thing. And if I can polish it like jasbiz66 says you will be the first one n line to say " that kids got something there"
stearman that was funny and I am touched that you chose my thread to be your first post. You complete me. Now go ride that bike and come back and tell me all about it |
Metalrabbit
| | Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 09:48 am: |
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I Got It, Transparent Aluminum,,, Maybe your the guy that invents it! |
Guard_rail
| | Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 10:43 am: |
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Wait. Stop the presses. No not tranny aluminum. It cost too much I checked. Plus my flux capasitour is still broke from my last trip back to the future. But how bout leather??? It's so crazy it just might work |
Guard_rail
| | Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 11:28 am: |
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Wanna know a secret. Every drop I ever had, I did plan it. But I've only been riding 6 months and during that time about 5 drops the last one over a guard rail and that was the last one I plan on having.
Now I'm not saying I won't go down. But I've done it everyway I wanna do it |
Freight_dog
| | Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 01:04 pm: |
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Well, why not make fairings out of lead? Nobody ever said that was a really stupid idea. Probably because people assume its OBVIOUS!
Glass fairings would be extremely heavy and the first pothole would have your fairings making little piles of glass rubble at your feet. Now if you don't plan on riding it, then it would certainly look different... |
Guard_rail
| | Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 01:16 pm: |
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Freight, what about leather??? |
99buellx1
| | Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 01:30 pm: |
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quote:Freight, what about leather???
Yeah, with fringe! |
Nillaice
| | Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 01:41 pm: |
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are you guys for real? 
i think winter and the associated motorcycling withdrawls have gotten the better of all of us.
Guard_rail wants to do something different with HIS buell. what's so wrong with that? it's his bike, and he every right to do with/to it what he damned well pleases.
it's been repeatedly repeated that glass fairings would be heavy and brittle.
and any full farirngs will get effed up in a tip-over.
i hope you find a way to execute this mod, and enjoy the hell out of it. and the best of luck to everyone (especially me) on keeping it rubberside down. |
Guard_rail
| | Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 02:04 pm: |
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Ok someone just told me leather would dry and crack. Yes I'm going thru withdrawl. But what fabric would work??? Tyvex- that stuff they wrap houses in |
Froggy
| | Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 02:49 pm: |
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quote:I Got It, Transparent Aluminum,,, Maybe your the guy that invents it!
Been done.
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Westmoorenerd
| | Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 03:12 pm: |
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Bet those are just made out of Lexan |
Freight_dog
| | Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 07:39 pm: |
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Just glue fur to your fairings and be done with it. |
Froggy
| | Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 07:45 pm: |
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Its the real thing, transparent aluminum is stronger than steel.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/transparent-alumi num-armor.htm
Last I heard, the air force was testing it with canopies on planes. |
Stearmandriver
| | Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 11:05 pm: |
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Oh...you're serious. I'm sorry for my remark. It was uncalled for and I do apologize.
Freight_dog, I have been one my entire career. Started in DC-3's and made it all the way to 767's before I was furloughed. Beech 1900's now in western Montana. Western Montana where it was 38 and sunny today. I rode my 25R and managed to put 30 more miles towards break in. |
Freight_dog
| | Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 12:25 am: |
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Well Stearman, you are a better man than I. Won't see my buttcheeks on the bike until it hits the upper 40's and it was only 18 here in NE Ohio today.
I spent several years flying Caravans, Aerostars, Navajo's, a Cheyenne and a Saab 340 around the Great Lakes icebox. I graduated to Beechjunks and pax a while back, but I would go back to hauling boxes in a heartbeat if the price was right. I may be crazy, but I miss shooting a half dozen approaches to 1800RVR in a night with the snow removal crews clearing the runway so I can land.
My current job isn't the best in the world but I am happy as hell to have one right now and I fly with some great guys. One of my buddies here would throw over the Beechjet to get back in a 1900 in a hurry. I work with another young guy who was lucky enough to fly a DC-3 around Puerto Rico to the Antilles, makes me jealous.
I love the mountains, it is so gorgeous out there and I don't get there nearly often enough. I start another rotation shortly and I am praying to get out to Vancouver for some Olympics action. |
Toysgarage
| | Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 08:37 am: |
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man forget shopping for what style rim suits your car
that sh#ts universal |
Westmoorenerd
| | Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 06:51 pm: |
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Definitely just Lexan and not "see through aluminum"...
http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/03/sema-clear-whee ls-steal-the-show/ |
Illbuell
| | Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 07:06 pm: |
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Oh yeah,,,Like see through titanium BAAHAHAHAHAHA |
Froggy
| | Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 09:06 pm: |
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I've seen other reports that those rims are indeed transparent aluminum. Regardless of whether the rims are it or not, the stuff does exist, just Google for it. |
Illbuell
| | Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 09:12 pm: |
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Transparent aluminium is a state of aluminium achieved by bombarding a thin (50 nm) Al foil with soft X-ray laser radiation (wavelength 13.5 nm). The short laser pulse knocks out a core L-shell electron from every aluminium atom without breaking the crystalline structure of the metal making it transparent to X-rays of the same wavelength. This phenomenon is called saturable absorption. The thus produced transient state of aluminium is as dense as ordinary matter but can only exist for an extremely short period of time, as the energy required to maintain the high temperature which would be necessary to hold it in this state would be enormous. To create transparent aluminium, more power than is used by an entire city had to be focused into a dot with a diameter of less than one-twentieth of a thickness of a human hair, and then could only maintain the transparent state for 40 femtoseconds...... |
Illbuell
| | Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 09:15 pm: |
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I really don't think 50NM thick alum will support a car... HAHAHAHAHAH
The wheels,,ALL clear wheels are lexan.. My neighbor has some on his bike.. I seen this stuff on cars and bikes five years ago. |
Westmoorenerd
| | Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 10:51 pm: |
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Froggy, yes there is such a thing as transparent aluminum, but it's not actually aluminum, it's a clear ceramic that is strengthened by aluminum. It has no metallic properties left. Also it's not very cost efficient though, costing 5x as much as traditional bullet proof glass. It is cheaper to manufacture than saphhire glass used in cockpits of aircraft though, unfortunatly to make a solid piece that large is extremely inefficient cost wise.
Just one post about it:
http://aimpoints.hq.af.mil/display.cfm?id=7223
(Message edited by westmoorenerd on January 29, 2010) |
Illbuell
| | Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 10:59 pm: |
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So the wheels would cost about 50 million dollars right Westmoorenerd?LOL |
Westmoorenerd
| | Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 11:07 pm: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride
About $15 a square inch, so it's not too bad. Only thing is the biggest piece I've read about was only 11"x11"... Not quite those 20" rims |
Illbuell
| | Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 11:16 pm: |
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True True |
Guard_rail
| | Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 06:55 am: |
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Is this sicence class or how to trick a bike? Iol. Thanks for the info. I'm all about the string theory anti matter stuff.
So I found this Thermo plexi stuff you can mold with a heat gun but the engine puts out so much heat I'm afraid it would melt the plexi. |
Afhans
| | Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 07:47 am: |
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Transparent aluminum somebody said. Here try this http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/09031 2180838.htm
(Yes this is a joke) |
Paulp1125cr
| | Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 10:38 am: |
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can i suggest u use lexan instead of plexi glass lexan won,t change colours |
Guard_rail
| | Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 04:46 pm: |
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Thanks paulp. The plastic I found is just plastic and won't work. Can I mold lex with a heat gun or do I need a fabracator with a oven |
Jules
| | Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 06:32 pm: |
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OK now we're slowly coming around to something I can understand... I really like the transparent airbox covers and actually I quite like the idea of a transparent fairing too...
So if they can make the airbox covers like that then presumably someone could do the same to a fairing... |
Guard_rail
| | Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 06:53 am: |
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Thank you Jules. Does that make sense everyone. Now do you see where I'm trying to go with this. Plus I just saw a car (BMW) that has no hard body. Just a skin of fabric. So even my leather idea has som merit. Anybody know what that BMW skin is made of??? |
