Start to Finish: Building Our 50' Skater
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So to answer the question, I designed it from scratch not based on anything else made, we modeled it in solid works and then we have machined every piece of it. The only thing we did not do was cut the teeth in the gears. I did not have the machine to do that at the time and the place that did it screwed up a couple so now we have the ability to do the teeth also so we are remaking them in house.
I had a Partnership with Haas, If you consider them buying my website a partnership. Long story, but I bought a new machine, the deal went bad before it even showed up and then it was a lemon. I had to start a website to get them to take care of it. We replaced it with a Makino. There is no comparison in quality or in Haas defense, Price.
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Think this is his set up: http://www.apex-mfg.com/p/contact.html
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I guess I need to update our website. We had to take everything off of it because every time we would put something on it our insurance company would say there going to drop us if we build this or that's. But now we have a new insurance company and it covers anything we do. I'm going to try to update it next week.
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I bought a couple fan loaded pelter junctions to try to make the seats air-conditioned. A pelter junction is a device that when electricity is applied it gets hot on one side and cold on the other. I will have them mounted to the seat with a duct into the seat back and bottom. I should be able to heat or cool the seats like they do in the new GMC's, and Cadillac's. Once we get the boat done I will let you know how they work and if they have enough btu to make a difference.
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Mad respect for the thought process that goes into this build!!! ![Cool](/forums/images/smilies/cool.gif)
Being and engineer I am always amazed at how machines are put together.....We had an old Fuji lathe break down in the shop and i popped open the side door where the hydraulics were housed....you have to know the sequence of installation just to get at one hard line....do it any other way and you will be taking lines on/off for days!!!
Heated/cooled seats!!!....that's one thing i probably wouldn't have thought of until i was out there either freezing or sweating my butt off during the run and complaining the whole ride!
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Being and engineer I am always amazed at how machines are put together.....We had an old Fuji lathe break down in the shop and i popped open the side door where the hydraulics were housed....you have to know the sequence of installation just to get at one hard line....do it any other way and you will be taking lines on/off for days!!!
Heated/cooled seats!!!....that's one thing i probably wouldn't have thought of until i was out there either freezing or sweating my butt off during the run and complaining the whole ride!
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I bought a couple fan loaded pelter junctions to try to make the seats air-conditioned. A pelter junction is a device that when electricity is applied it gets hot on one side and cold on the other. I will have them mounted to the seat with a duct into the seat back and bottom. I should be able to heat or cool the seats like they do in the new GMC's, and Cadillac's. Once we get the boat done I will let you know how they work and if they have enough btu to make a difference.
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I would run something a little smaller, and have a PWM controller for a low and high so you don't freeze your buns off, on high cool it is going to be too much. Also, be sure to have big enough holes in your seats with channels for the air to get through the foam. This is normally done with a bubble wrap style cusion to distribute the air correctly.