Reply to "Chesil Speedster - my planned winter overhaul of '98 build"

Gordon NicholsMassachusetts 1993 CMC Supporting Member

@ALB wrote “A really smart man would only rework it to 25 or maybe 30% lighter; then there's a little room for miscalculation/error”

True. Maybe it would be better to Laser-drill a bunch of “micro-holes” in it instead, thereby attempting to maintain structural integrity? 😆

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When I had a bunch of mechanical designers working on my projects I was forever impressed with how much those guys knew about basic metallurgy, almost as a cultural thing. Things I never even thought of, but they just knew.

I was first impressed by the electronics guys achieving what seemed like “magic” out of electronic circuitry, especially on the scale of a large-scale computer server, but those Mechanical guys just quietly went about their work and knew far more about working with different metals (and against a product cost target) than I’ll ever know. Those guys were Rock Stars!

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