[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by pont406

Keith, I have seen them check thicknesses of the sheetmetal, here at the stamping plant, when they have a problem with metal splitting,etc, A guy will come out with a handheld device, (looks to be an ultrasound type of deal) and check it for stretching, etc. seemed to be fairly accurate, at least they thought so!

Pont - see if you can get a brand name and model, and also any information on the transducer itself.

Thanks -

K

PS - think they'd let me borrow it?

[Transporter]

Originally Posted by x-bird2

Transporter--i'll ask kenny B. or his brother about the godfather car. i drop in on them ever couple of weeks. they still have their speed shop in tatamy and it's all of 2 miles down the road. good guys lot of racing and help to racers around here over the years from them.

Thanks X, Back in the day I bought a ton of stuff off of Stan and Kenny. I was raised on a farm not to far from from there. I remember there dad and used to go there when they were still in there orig. garage down the road. I haven't been back in some years. If your orig from that area. THE STRIP, still brings back alot of memories. Four lanes wide 25 blocks long. It was like a car show every fri/sat.

[triathlonx13]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

Pont - see if you can get a brand name and model, and also any information on the transducer itself.

Thanks -

K

PS - think they'd let me borrow it?

Keith and Pont.... Are you guys looking for something like this? (check out these links)

http://www.olympusndt.com/en/products/

http://www.olympusndt.com/en/ndt-app...209715209.html

http://www.olympusndt.com/en/thickness/

http://www.elcometer.com/internation...0thickness.htm

[Keith Seymore]

Yes - the one I have is the 25DL Plus (Panametrics).

Although the instrument is rated to measure very small differences I think the transducer plays a more important part in how fine you can measure.

K

[triathlonx13]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

Yes - the one I have is the 25DL Plus (Panametrics).

Although the instrument is rated to measure very small differences I think the transducer plays a more important part in how fine you can measure.

K

Yes, that would make sense. The set up and accuracy for a section of material at say 20" thick would be different then the set up required to measure .031" thick material. As long as you have the set up set figured out for say steel with a range of .015"-.068" you should be able to obtain accuracies stated in the equipments manual.

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[Keith Seymore]

Feeling guilty about hijacking the thread so I thought I would post some more pics (to appease my guilty conscience...):

[b-man]

.....the 'most dangerous drag car of all time' award.

[goatless]

Originally Posted by b-man

.....the 'most dangerous drag car of all time' award.

That is friggen insane!!!!

[Jerry H.]

Talk about skinning your a$$!

[triathlonx13]

At least the motor is behind him.... but geeeeze! That's insane! I think today's NHRA Rule book has a thing or two about driver location... Was there any official rules back then? I was born in 68 - so it's before my time.

[rtanner]

notice the tech officials they are both pointing get the f### outa here!

[Keith Seymore]

Geez

I forgot the best one!

(I have a thing for black cars with red pinstripes)...

[rtanner]

oh my i think that is the best picture i have ever seen in my life!

[triathlonx13]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

Geez

I forgot the best one!

(I have a thing for black cars with red pinstripes)...

Wasn't the batmobile pontiac powered?????

[brians]

Jackshaw Pontiac

[1971WARBIRD]

does anyone have any pictures of the 73-74 firebird/trans ams Bill Foder ran in the mid 80's?

[Wareagle]

Is this the one.

[1971WARBIRD]

that's the one.just ended up with it and trying to find out all i can about how it was raced back in the day.

from what i've found out so far,it's a 1973 bird that was raced for a time then changed to a 74 because of NHRA rules.was raced with a 400 from what i've heard.

going to try to put it back as it was when it was the NHRA-IHRA record holder.who knows may show up at Norwalk in a year or two.

[cutrone]

Here is one...
Very cool car , good luck with it.

would love to see it @ Norwalk.

[Wareagle]

Originally Posted by cutrone

Here is one...
Very cool car , good luck with it.

would love to see it @ Norwalk.

Cool pic --Bill Foder sure knew how to make those Pontiacs run with the best.