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Old 09-30-2011, 02:11 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MetroMPG View Post
My only other comment is it's probably best to try to avoid "hard" corners at the transition from the "top" surface to the "side" surfaces, if possible. But with this construction technique, that's harder to do.
yeah, if i did it again I would try to soften those corners. I don't think that would have been hard to do, but i didn't realize that mattered until much later reading one of your posts on someone else's kammback ideas. I think I could have bent the aluminum to be curved along the back edge and made it round toward the back. I'm not sure the coreplast would have liked that bend but I could do it in ABS or something.

My main tactic has been build what others have proved to work rather than test stuff myself but lately I've really been wanting to do a tuft test just to find out what's going on and identify possible tweaks that would benefit me.
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