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Default English wheel, and other metalworking questions

On 1/6/2014 8:27 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
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Part of me wondered if there would be a way to measure a model car
(like you put together as a kid) and somehow get measurements off of
it, increase those based on whatever scale the model is, and somehow
use those to create drawings to base a buck or mold off of. I may
know a place that has a CMM but am unfamiliar with it.


Wooden ship builders made models and then scaled them up to full size.
You could look into their procedures.
http://www.duck-trap.com/lofting.html

Engineers' and architects' scales allow you to measure a model as
though it was full-sized.
http://www.amazon.com/Staedtler-R-En...181449-6977647




My own efforts...
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb/draft.htm