Former Member | 06/01/2019 10:00:35 |
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Mick B1 | 06/01/2019 10:22:47 |
2444 forum posts 139 photos | Thanks for that - it's very interesting that a workshop of such casual appearance can produce such results. How does the business work? Is it some kind of co-operative? Is there a sales deprtment? If each craftsman knows his part of the work in such detail, worker flexibility must be difficult or impossible to achieve - sickness or absence of each or any worker would presumably affect a range of their products. Are they self-employed (or local equivalent) or on a company payroll? I'm just wondering whether there's any sort of an organisational model there that could work here? Edited By Mick B1 on 06/01/2019 10:24:04 |
Former Member | 06/01/2019 10:40:25 |
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Niels Abildgaard | 06/01/2019 11:22:00 |
470 forum posts 177 photos | Very interesting . Thank You The Profi V6 thing crank looks like a Schilling construction and I have never understood how they are made and kept together. Are there some general marketing material,describtions etc available on the webfrom Ukraine? My dream is a V2 twostroke test engine with common crancase and OHV,SV and normal piston exhaust using a common block and crank. I have never been able to make a suitable crankshaft.
Maybe the Ukranians can do it? Edited By Niels Abildgaard on 06/01/2019 11:24:40 Edited By Niels Abildgaard on 06/01/2019 11:28:32 |
Ady1 | 06/01/2019 11:25:51 |
![]() 6137 forum posts 893 photos | People with real skills tend to do well, whether in a small group or as self employed, because they produce desirable products Jewellery is a simple example Edit: Much easier to survive nowadays because of the global reach of the internet, advertising is really really easy Edited By Ady1 on 06/01/2019 11:29:09 |
not done it yet | 06/01/2019 11:41:34 |
7517 forum posts 20 photos | Just looked on ‘goggle’ and saw a profi 50 sold as limited production Austrian manufacture. Apparently sold for $2300. Are these current models, some marketing ploys at work, or what? I wonder how that 50cc dohc engine would fly in a moped frame! |
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colin wilkinson | 06/01/2019 11:44:26 |
71 forum posts | Ref the DOHC Profi 50cc. Colin https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mh12/auction/lots/l448 |
Former Member | 06/01/2019 11:46:35 |
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Dave Halford | 06/01/2019 12:02:27 |
2536 forum posts 24 photos | I think it's a conspiracy to fool ME's into believing you can make really small parts on big machines and thus push up the prices for industrial plant. |
Ady1 | 06/01/2019 12:17:23 |
![]() 6137 forum posts 893 photos | dean clarke 2 in here does this kind of stuff on huge machines Haven't seen him in here for a while though, hope he's ok Edited By Ady1 on 06/01/2019 12:21:59 |
JasonB | 06/01/2019 13:54:47 |
![]() 25215 forum posts 3105 photos 1 articles | Thanks for that Barrie. |
not done it yet | 06/01/2019 15:16:12 |
7517 forum posts 20 photos | Posted by Barrie Lever on 06/01/2019 11:46:35:
The 50cc was made around 2008, I think it was actually sold by Czech company Mezick (spelling check required). They made the 50cc because they could and to showcase their skills. These guys at the factories don't have cunning marketing plans/ideas. Barrie I wasn’t really expecting that it was them. Either the seller or the auctioneers. |
DrDave | 06/01/2019 15:40:58 |
264 forum posts 52 photos | Thanks for posting those photos, Barrie. I used to drool over these F2A engines when Ian Mander was the UK agent for anything control line speed related. In the end my budget would only stretch to a second hand OPS. Sigh! |
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DrDave | 06/01/2019 18:18:55 |
264 forum posts 52 photos | Yes, I flew the OPS in Ian’s “speed trainer”. Very docile (& slow!), but I had an interesting moment when the down line broke when I tried to shut off the engine... I never really got to grips with the fully asymmetrical ‘planes: it would inevitably turn in and eat the lines. I only got a few flights with the OPS in a proper model. Respect, too, to anyone who flys a CL pulsejet! Regards Dave |
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DrDave | 06/01/2019 18:35:23 |
264 forum posts 52 photos | Posted by Barrie Lever on 06/01/2019 18:26:07:
I have a few take off issues, the dolly is ultra critical I used to use Ian’s dolly, so pure pilot induced cock-ups. But with the thrust line outboard from the cg, there is an inward turning moment that bit me most times |
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