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weatherx 08-06-2009 01:23 PM

CLEAR/TRANSPARENT material for underside tray?
 
i know the tray material issue has been beaten to death but i'd like to be able to see the engine through the underside tray to tell problems, if any. does anyone know of a material for this purpose? thanks.

GasSavers_RoadWarrior 08-06-2009 01:32 PM

I'd wireframe it then cover it with boat shrinkwrap... apart from around the exhaust components of course.


edit: Actually what would be an idea is to make custom panels out of whatever opaque substance is convenient, all the work/bother of fitting those is finding something to attach the edges to, and shaping those right. Then when you've got those right, you could cut "windows" in them and either make "easy off" access panels held on with industrial velcro or similar, OR just cover with boat wrap, window film, regular poly sheet etc.

Ford Man 08-06-2009 02:30 PM

Plexiglass?

Snax 08-07-2009 07:24 PM

Don't do plexi. It is too brittle in the thin kind of sheets needed to flex fit.

theclencher 08-07-2009 07:42 PM

If it's anything like my stuff, it'll get dirty in no time, then you won't be able to see through it anyway, and then where will you be?

BamZipPow 08-24-2009 06:51 PM

If you can afford it...there's always transparent aluminum. :D

GasSavers_maximilian 08-24-2009 07:19 PM

Why did they even need to be able to see the whales in the first place? And if they had, cameras couldn't have done the job?

theholycow 08-25-2009 08:43 AM

It's been important to more than one plots...they can't just do things the easy way unless the easy way is impossible (warp drive, transporters).

Wait, we ARE talking about Star Trek here, right? :D

GasSavers_maximilian 08-25-2009 09:13 AM

Good point: Star Trek is not science fiction, but fantasy.

GasSavers_RoadWarrior 08-25-2009 09:43 AM

There is a technically intensive potentially feasible way of rendering aluminum "transparent" ... but it's on the order of give me a couple of million dollars and a couple of years and then I'll show you. It's a bit like the laser bounce method of bugging someone, only you're bugging eleventy billion atoms on the surface of the metal, then you need to cross modulate the output into the visual range.... very highly complex.


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