"Ron Wanttaja" wrote...
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 10:20:53 -0400, "Larry Smith"

wrote:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~steele2...rs/image4.html

Check out the butt-ugly wheelpants, looking to be cobbled up by an
apprenticed carpenter who didn't make it through his apprenticeship.

To me, it looks more like he was just trying to save a lot of time vs.
making a set of compound-curve male or female molds, or save a bit of
money
vs. buying ready-made pants.

If I were to "reverse engineer" the pants from the photo, it looks like
he
made a male mold from a block of foam (or a stack of plywood) cut to the
basic outline, routed the outer edges, ran the assembly vertically
through
a bandsaw to add a bit of curve to the sides on the front and back, then
sanded it smooth. A heck of a lot less time than carving up a classic
teardrop shape in three dimensions.

They probably wouldn't look good scaled up, but on small, fat gyro
wheels,
I think they look all right. Workmanship, judging from that
low-resolution
photo, looks fine.

The pants look fine but that gyro needs a horizontal stabilizer and the
thrust line lowered...