VolklKatana
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So I have been pondering this for a couple days and wanted to get some of your guys's ideas as well. This is a hard question to verbalize so stick with me here....
It has been stated by Elon CT will be built using the score and fold method. Also knowing how other items similarly (appliance cabinet) are built, I have serious questions about how this will be accomplished. Appliance cabinets start off as 40 inch or so roll of metal that is then cut, bent and folded to create the cabinet that goes around the contents of the appliance. This leaves you with an appliance depth of around 36 inches.
CT, I assume will be folded to create cavities that may be a couple inches thick. Prior to folding, this piece of metal would need to be the the length and width of the vehicle with extra added in to fold the supports into the structure ! How could this even work? If the metal is as rigid as they claim, there is no way this will be delivered in roll form. Even if sheet blanks came by train, youre looking at a max width of, what, 5 feet? if stood on end, maybe 12'? I have to imagine there is 0 possibility of the body actually being 1 piece. If it is, we are talking about a piece of metal that would have to be AT LEAST:
(all guesses on rough dimensions)
48" height x 2(for each side) + 12" added for folding of tubular supports= 108"
width 80" lets assume single piece here, no supports
length 231" + at least another 12" for supports = 243"
If truly a single piece youre looking at starting piece of metal that is 188" x 243" or 16' x 20'
I dont see this as feasible, so how are they going to accomplish this?
It has been stated by Elon CT will be built using the score and fold method. Also knowing how other items similarly (appliance cabinet) are built, I have serious questions about how this will be accomplished. Appliance cabinets start off as 40 inch or so roll of metal that is then cut, bent and folded to create the cabinet that goes around the contents of the appliance. This leaves you with an appliance depth of around 36 inches.
CT, I assume will be folded to create cavities that may be a couple inches thick. Prior to folding, this piece of metal would need to be the the length and width of the vehicle with extra added in to fold the supports into the structure ! How could this even work? If the metal is as rigid as they claim, there is no way this will be delivered in roll form. Even if sheet blanks came by train, youre looking at a max width of, what, 5 feet? if stood on end, maybe 12'? I have to imagine there is 0 possibility of the body actually being 1 piece. If it is, we are talking about a piece of metal that would have to be AT LEAST:
(all guesses on rough dimensions)
48" height x 2(for each side) + 12" added for folding of tubular supports= 108"
width 80" lets assume single piece here, no supports
length 231" + at least another 12" for supports = 243"
If truly a single piece youre looking at starting piece of metal that is 188" x 243" or 16' x 20'
I dont see this as feasible, so how are they going to accomplish this?
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