Stainless steel rolls spotted during delivery to Giga Texas today (9/20/22) ?

[Throwcomputer]

… and there will be scores of bends and welds.

and scores of scores, bends of bends and welds of welds!

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[JBee]

… and there will be scores of bends and welds.

The less the better actually. Every process costs dough.

 

[cvalue13]

As for not being able to bend 3mm stainless this is not true and I think is a bit of a red herring. A 50ton press brake will do a 4ft crease in 3mm SS to make a CT door panel. The question is how do they do it without weakening the material of having to harden,

EM’s purported strength (not “hardness”) reports would suggest the steel itself (not the presses) would fail at any material angle of pressing - basically like trying to fold a cracker.

I’ve seen elsewhere (not bothering to look it up at moment) from companies that do steel casting modeling that the precise issue is that the steel is too strong (not “hard”) to bend without causing the steel itself to fail/weaken - something like, that the cold-roll strengthening process causes the material’s strength to approach its tensile limits, and so, as it becomes harder to bend, it simultaneously also becomes less likely to bend rather than deform/break.

folks saying “it can’t be bent” I think are fairly interpreted as saying “it can’t be bent and still function appropriately”

 

[Qball]

I can only hope, back to waiting….

 

[Crissa]

folks saying “it can’t be bent” I think are fairly interpreted as saying “it can’t be bent and still function appropriately”

Yes, but that's the sheet. Not the new component which is a different shape. Think turning those sheets into square tubes by folding them a bunch of time and then welding it together.

-Crissa

 

[cvalue13]

Yes, but that's the sheet. Not the new component which is a different shape. Think turning those sheets into square tubes by folding them a bunch of time and then welding it together.

-Crissa

I’m not following!

 

[greggertruck]

I may get flamed for this; I don't know why but I feel like I've seen rolls like that around the Texas property before.

 

[Ogre]

I may get flamed for this; I don't know why but I feel like I've seen rolls like that around the Texas property before.

I doubt there will be any flaming. As far as we can tell it’s just spools of rolled up metal.

 

[Throwcomputer]

I doubt there will be any flaming. As far as we can tell it’s just spools of rolled up metal.

and its cold rolled... so, no flames.

 

[greggertruck]

and its cold rolled... so, no flames.

cool to see todays video too, inside look. I don't know what tooling would / could be ready for trial yet. but, it's totally possible there is something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

GREAT eye regardless man!

 

[Alpine]

Good example of how starved we are for info. Rolls on a truck have to be analyzed and debated. Come on tesla, quit fucking around and tell us where you're at with ct

 

[Ogre]

Good example of how starved we are for info. Rolls on a truck have to be analyzed and debated. Come on tesla, quit fucking around and tell us where you're at with ct

Forums are (low grade) entertainment.

It’s not about how starved for information we are, it’s about how bored we are at work. Most of us would be talking about **something** on here regardless.

I’m going to go ride a bike.

 

[charliemagpie]

If it's the same steel as spacex.

Anyone with superhero recall power remember seeing the steel in any of the spacex vids ?

 

[JBee]

Forums are (low grade) entertainment.

It’s not about how starved for information we are, it’s about how bored we are at work. Most of us would be talking about **something** on here regardless.

I’m going to go ride a bike.

Speak for yourself, I thought it was to share information and write one liners to harvest likes.

 

[Jhodgesatmb]

I believe you are correct that the sheet will have to be scored before being bent. It's too thick to bend without the scoring... Now, Elon said the doors would be 3mm thick but didn't exactly say that the rest of the body would be made from the same gauge of steel. Perhaps more normal bending process for every other bend but the doors. Hmm...

It was only later that Elon said the doors would be 3mm, even though their sledge test was on the doors, but the exoskeleton was alwas advertised as 3mm stainless. So the hood and tailgate should be 3mm stainless as well. The bed pretty much has to be. Any inner sections can be thinner and thus be stamped.

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