Before we can make the mold, we need to create the mold positive. This is basically a case half, except we make it out of plastic. It’s not just any case half though – it’s a reproduction of our raw casting, which means that it is dimensionally...
Although scanning the case was a monumental and expensive effort, in and of itself, a Solidworks drawing of a case is pretty much useless for building the tooling needed to actually build a case. But it’s a start. This is where the toolmaker comes in. In order...
When we decided to reproduce a Porsche® air cooled flat 6 engine case, the dilemma was which one exactly we should invest in making. It was a hard decision; there are many great cases. We were initially partial to an aluminum version of a 7R mag case, but that has its...
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