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Old 06-02-2010, 02:44 AM   #15 (permalink)
hat_man
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Thanks for the advice Frank . I have been contemplating a simple cap for the bed. Not being a real "design guy" and having limited fabbing skills, (but great pipe bending skills. I'm an electrician) does an aero-cap need to be all "swoopy" with rolled edges or would something with some right angles still be workable? Imagine a rectangular box, cut down, with a sloping horizontal plane for the top. Where the sides meet the top would be 90 degrees, but with a sloping plane at 12 degrees from the bed.

As a side question--- How in the world did someone figure out that 12 degrees was the right angle? It seems I read it somewhere that 12 deg. was optimal but how it was decided I can't remember.

Anyways, thanks again for the help.

Hat_man
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