Send Her down here... Re: [DMCForum] stainless thickness

["Andrei Cular" <andreic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Farrar

How is she with fiberglass? We could use the help down here, engineering
work during the day and building a car at night.



Andrei




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Farrar Hudkins" <fhudkins@xxxxxxx>
To: <DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [DMCForum] stainless thickness


> Scott:
>
> Yeah, she does. She's managed to keep an '89 GMC Sierra pickup running
> for some 240,000+ miles, but she needs to overhaul the air conditioning
> system before things get too hot down here. She just got the bike, but
> I'm pretty sure she'll be working on it pretty soon. She's actually a
> mechanical engineer, but she's stuck behind a computer all day when
> she'd rather be turning a wrench. I guess the grass is always greener
> somewhere else! Still, friends like these are hard to find. Of course,
> she makes more money than I do so she's always leaving the country. Go
> figure. LOL
>
> Farrar
>
> Scott Mueller wrote:
> > Sounds like you have made a good friend.
> >
> > Does she know how to work on cars and motorcycles?
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Farrar Hudkins [mailto:fhudkins@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 5:28 PM
> > To: DMCForum List
> > Subject: [DMCForum] stainless thickness
> >
> >
> > Hi, gang:
> >
> > The other day my friend Bekah and I were taking a nice walk around a
> > lake on a warm Spring Sunday ... and naturally the topic of conversation
> > wandered from her motorcycle to my potential DeLorean. She wanted to
> > know how thick the body panels are on the little stainless wonders.
> > Turns out neither of us know the properties of type 304 stainless steel
> > and therefore whether they'd have to be thinner or thicker than regular
> > "carbon steel" used in other vehicles to meet the same stiffness/safety
> > requirements. So now she's got me curious, too ... just how thick is
> > that metal? Anybody measured it when they had their car taken apart?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Farrar
> >
> >
>
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