Phuck making bikes...We should make Revved butt plugs, threaded A/V plugs (metric pitch for Sethimus of course), dildos, ball gags, etc...
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If you have a hole, we can fill it.
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If you have a hole, we can fill it.
Guerrilla Gravity, badass frame manufacturer in Colorado
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Could we sell carbon fiber ‘vibration damping’ weights, you know, because carbon fiber is lighter, and dampens more vibrations?
Makes perfect sense to me.
”The most technologically advanced heavy thing ever applied to the demanding needs and requirements of bicycle physics. They make your teeth whiter!”
Makes perfect sense to me.
”The most technologically advanced heavy thing ever applied to the demanding needs and requirements of bicycle physics. They make your teeth whiter!”
ever ride a carbon fiber snowboard on hardpack?
you're hired
for six months of an individual product cycle
You tell the truth, Woo CF snowboards SUCKED.
But our ‘damping weights’ will be REVVED.
BIG difference!
But our ‘damping weights’ will be REVVED.
BIG difference!
Holy fuuk. Well, if they would have given me moar time....maybe. Definitely. I just don't want to drive an hour to Denver....but virtual....haha@SylentK
You're up!
good timing
my partner just asked me what I wanted for christmas
Haas VF2 SSYT CNC Vertical Machining Center, 30 Position CAT 40 Automatic Tool Changer, 18" x 36"
Lot 55 at Thermoplastic Carbon Fiber Bike Manufacturer from ThreeSixty Asset Advisors LLC / PPL Auction.www.bidspotter.com
Haas VM6 CNC Vertical Machining Center, 30 Position CAT 40 Automatic Tool Changer, 28" x 64" Tabl
Lot 53 at Thermoplastic Carbon Fiber Bike Manufacturer from ThreeSixty Asset Advisors LLC / PPL Auction.
Finally found the Reddit post that stated that technicians performed hand layup.
This is what actual automated fiber placement looks like.
And this is actual automated fiber cutting.
Edit: I am shocked they were cutting material by hand. Unless you have slave labor the ROI on a CNC trimmer would be significant and with optimized nesting software would produce significantly less waste.
And this is actual automated fiber cutting.
Edit: I am shocked they were cutting material by hand. Unless you have slave labor the ROI on a CNC trimmer would be significant and with optimized nesting software would produce significantly less waste.
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I thought revved used long narrow strands and wrapped them all over the inner section of mold before its placed inside the outer molds and then injected with the thermoform plastic. I swear thats what I saw in a marketing video either directly on their channel or by pink bike. Might have been the same video they went full force Thor on it with a full sized sledge and barely chipped the powercoat.
Apparently not alone with the planned plastic wheels.
This wouldn't work for bikes. The distribution of thermoset and fiber would be a mess. This is why they use tapes, the single layer of tape can be made to have a consistent and even distribution of thermoset and fiber.
Yep that's what I expected when they said automated. Using a projector and calling that automation is a stretch, marketing wank at best. It didn't reduce human labour, it would help in accuracy no question about that, but just like using a jig of any type it's not automation.
But revved carbon uses thermoplastic for the resin, not thermoset. I guess it could be injected into the tape first like pre-preg, but the tape would need to be heated up to be too hot for people to handle for it to lay into the forms.
This was my understanding as well. I would also maintain the "GG process" is still less labor intensive than the usual way thermoset frames are made.
Thermoset. Thermoplastic. Carbon. I've studied it, cuz school, and that was a while ago. But really. Aluminum, steel, ti. All the metals. For bikes I like to ride anyways IMO
The tech is cool, tho. But for bikes? Hmm....The ex-Chief Enginerd over there (mtg) is no idiot. Maybe a master mind, ahead of his time.
The tech is cool, tho. But for bikes? Hmm....The ex-Chief Enginerd over there (mtg) is no idiot. Maybe a master mind, ahead of his time.
did they move the live auction dates out? I thought it was the 14th last I looked at the page.
Mountain time?
Why is that? It's filament wound construction. It has/is used successfully for rims and cranks, don't see why it wouldn't work for a frame that is designed for it.
The fiber is a continuous strand which is fed from a computer controlled robotic arm/loom and wrapped over a (usually EPS) preform. It is then placed in a metal mold and heated/injected with the resin. Resin distribution is very consistent. The inner foam piece can be cutaway as needed, or just left in place as it is very light.
Super repeatable and actually automated.
I thought the foam melted at a temperature a little higher than what's used to set the resin. At the end of the curing the temp is brought up a little and the liquid foam runs out. No one does this?
Did y’all know that the Time bicycle factory is moving from “France”(Tunisia) to Upstate South Carolina ?
The RTM method is so complicated BMW and Clemson University are splitting a bunch of grant money to try to figure out if people who speak ‘murican can even pull it off.
Color me skeptical.
you mistake them with look, they are the ones producing in tunesia. time is opening a second prodcution site in the us. afaik the euro one stays
I don't get it. I suck. Who is that? And what is he doing on RM? No really, I have no idea. C'mon Shtles, don't leave me hanging...
Cleaning the garage and work bench would be another....