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Court
| | Posted on Friday, July 04, 2003 - 07:37 am: | 
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Could someone who has a copy of that magazine shoot a copy of the article and send to me. I have some of the "non-moto" articles about Buell from times gone by and it would be fun to read.
Court |
Sickquad
| | Posted on Friday, July 04, 2003 - 11:24 am: |
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Court, send me an email on Tuesday and I can scan them at work.
Chris |
Anonymous
| | Posted on Friday, July 04, 2003 - 03:48 pm: |
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Dyna,
Of course many molds are chrome plated. But the process used on the molds for Buell is way out of the ordinary.
I'm not trying to bust your chops, man, but the fact is the material and process for the Buell bodywork is unique. You acted like it was a "no-brainer" that everyone does. It is not.
I'd tell you more about it, but it really is protected, because it cost a lot of money and time to develop it. Competitors would love to have their molded in color (which they do use), be anywhere near this good. |
Roc
| | Posted on Friday, July 04, 2003 - 04:36 pm: |
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Metal molding boosts Buell's Firebolt-
http://www.manufacturing.net/pur/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA163770
Buell blasts off with molded-in color -
http://www.manufacturing.net/pur/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA140053
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Roc
| | Posted on Friday, July 04, 2003 - 04:39 pm: |
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One of Buell's most impressive qualities, as a company, seems to be their innovation in manufacturing. |
Hans
| | Posted on Saturday, July 05, 2003 - 04:10 am: |
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Roc: Thanx for sharing. Excellent articles. The BUELL characters on my bike have begun to glow in the dark. 
Hans |
Mikej
| | Posted on Monday, July 07, 2003 - 09:41 am: |
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Darthane,
Your information is slightly out of date, and partially incorrect.  ">
(I'm not allowed to say much more than that.)
Sickquad,
There is a book co-authored by an engineer who happens to work at Buell on CAE and FEA stuff. I've lost the link to it though, someone will probably post it. This may be the technology you're speaking of.
edited by mikej on July 07, 2003 |
Darthane
| | Posted on Monday, July 07, 2003 - 01:42 pm: |
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Mike,
Ahh, well...it's been about 2 years since I was really involved in that stuff, so no big surprise. I moved out of the 2D/3D design world.
Personally I'm hoping to learn Catia soon, and I really looking for Mentor Graphics to purchase Catia so that they own a complete schematic/harness 2D/3D engineering and design suite. And if you have any idea what I just said, you're just as big a CAE/CAD geek as I am! |
Sickquad
| | Posted on Monday, July 07, 2003 - 02:43 pm: |
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I understand Darthane, however, I consider myself unique, not a geek. Being unique is good. |
Mikej
| | Posted on Monday, July 07, 2003 - 03:35 pm: |
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Our last harness we farmed out.
I understand all too well. |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Monday, July 07, 2003 - 08:06 pm: |
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CAE/CAD? not my pay grade, darnit, I did CAD/CAM/SPC. |
Court
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 08, 2003 - 05:06 am: |
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Building Better Products with Finite Element Analysis
by Vince Adams, Abraham Askenazi |
Sickquad
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 08, 2003 - 09:45 am: |
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I looked through that book, I thought my text was a better resource. |
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