I am shocked that you, one of the only very successful hull builders, just got accused of not doing research on materials used in your composites company. I realize he’s insinuating you don’t use the most exotic possible materials in your skis but honestly, do you absolutely have to? I would love to see someone’s actual stress calculations or simulations to prove you would need it. 10x more material money (guessing - hypothetical) for marginal benefit hardly seems worth it. It’s a jetski and half a pound isn’t significant. ...Given the builder like yourself knows what they’re doing.
What's with all the molds for sale
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I am shocked that you, one of the only very successful hull builders, just got accused of not doing research on materials used in your composites company. I realize he’s insinuating you don’t use the most exotic possible materials in your skis but honestly, do you absolutely have to? I would love to see someone’s actual stress calculations or simulations to prove you would need it. 10x more material money (guessing - hypothetical) for marginal benefit hardly seems worth it. It’s a jetski and half a pound isn’t significant. ...Given the builder like yourself knows what they’re doing.
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Buy a Superjet
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Why is no one stamping hulls out of aluminum?
I'm guessing the tooling cost is a non-starter for a shape that would work for a ski. Boats made from fabricated sheets are much simpler shapes. Not sure if it would be a good idea outside of that, but I don't see that problem being overcome.
SpaceCowboy
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Not strong enough and cost.
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Give it 5 years tops and we will be 3D printing jetski hulls. Additive manufacturing is making leaps and bounds every single day. Looks like Revolver 3D printed their molds or at least prototypes already. Pretty sure they could do a jetski right now, just not cost effective yet.
Definitely can use a CNC router to carve a plug out of foam. Still requires a lot of finish work but that has been a thing for a long time.
3D printing a mold directly seems very plausible, I'm guessing it would still take some finish work.
There are also 3d scanners that can fairly easily make a computer model of an existing hull for the "splash a xxxx" crowd, or as a start point to modify things.
3D printing a mold directly seems very plausible, I'm guessing it would still take some finish work.
There are also 3d scanners that can fairly easily make a computer model of an existing hull for the "splash a xxxx" crowd, or as a start point to modify things.
That's if the sport continues to grow. Look at how long it took for someone to come out with a badass freestyle ski. To my knowledge The revolver and nitro hull plugs were c&c cut.
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You are right, but the good thing about 3D printing is once the tech is there, it doesn't have to be dedicated to building jetskis. Instead of dumping all this time into molds, tooling and mats that are good for nothing but jetskis, you just load up a new file and print off a hull between whatever else you use the machine for. Similar to CNC you could just pay a company to run your file a few times, wouldn't even have to invest in the equipment. Every wannabe hull builder on this forum with Autocad could design what they want and pay a company to print it. At least in theory.
Big Kahuna
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Tem was looking into getting CNC Molds made for his new Cat boat project. Not sure if he ended up going that round, I would guess he probably did.
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Lol, I'd like to see you try and convince him that "half a pound isn't significant ".
Lol, did you read the comment? If a half pound is saved by using exotic materials but 10x the cost, the half pound is not worth it to the customer.
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just to make the competitions fair, all boats plus rider should weigh roughly the same
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This ^^
That's how most forms of motorsport operate.
Jarrett1999
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Thrust hasn’t making super freaks for a while, so brian threw the molds up for sale, I was there. Now for hurricane, I’m gonna guess... dk jr makes more money playing world of Warcraft.
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He took a job doing something else.
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Maybe so. All I know is what I saw him post on Facebook