Btw coming back to our Bearcat gear.
I had planned to do all the drawings in my Christmas Holiday, and so I did for 3 days. Filled a lot of paper ( 20 all together) with all the drawings and details.
Now a friend is going to convert them in a CAD program file. I guess it will take him at least the same time.
Then we will order one set in a professional 3D printed version, just to be sure that everything fits as it should, before we are going to have the parts machined.
You see, it can be a long way to go.
Would be much easier for me to make one set on my machines at home, no question. The Cat would propably be standing on ist legs by this time.
But then the other chaps would have none, and I cannot produce the parts in serial production on my conventional machines.
btw there is one well known company interested in making the parts, not sure if they are talking about a few sets (for us only) or as a commercionally available product. We stay in touch to clearify the possible deal.
In case someone here was interested, let me know.