Scottish Elises

Made a set last week and thought you lot would like a nosey.

We had a film crew in on Wednesday filming a day in the life of a female apprentice. (not me ) and rather than have her machine a customer's part and have to get permission. I was tasked will programming something cool.



I had to modify them slightly as they are 50% scale and I was finishing with a 6mm endmill. The machine spindle only goes to 7k so they took 7mins for the pair. I used a Trochoidal method because it looks cool and removes a lot of material fast.

Fantastic result Graeme, looks as if you can not make full size ones, but they are getting very hard to come by for the S1 so there is a market out there.

tut

Nice job!

Nice work

Shame you didn't do some life size ones, can you still get new ones of these??

mckeann wrote:Shame you didn't do some life size ones, can you still get new ones of these??

There was some NOS kicking around a few years ago, but prices had shot up, not sure about now. Someone will have some stashed away. They are reasonably simple to replicate from a lump of billet though as Nizzy & co have done, although that is of course quite different to extruding them. Should be scope for Elise part or a.n.other to make some if there's ever the need (they already do the GT hubs).

Also, you could do a plasma repair on the bearing location of old hubs.... no idea what the costs of that would be though & would take some development work.

Making them the correct size is relatively simple. I only made them at that scale because that's the size of the material I had knocking about.

To do them on a commercial basic they would probably be the same price as the GT hubs.

Thats very cool. So are you going to keep going and build a 50% scale Elise? Would be the coolest pedal car ever!

Ferg wrote:Thats very cool. So are you going to keep going and build a 50% scale Elise? Would be the coolest pedal car ever!

Would be better for trying to teach my daughter oversteer then her pram is just now.