[quote=efinley]A couple of guys in Fleet 2 have been kicking this idea around as well. I doubt it would be able to reduce the price vs Hobie but I believe that Hobie doesn't even make them anymore. So that being said I agree with Scott, you need to find someone with a mandrel bender, we were thinking of checking out a spiral staircase manufacturer since they're good with a mandrel bender.
As for the brackets I'm thinking about using someone like emachineshop.com. I have no idea what it would cost but they could either cast them of based on volume maybe you could just CNC them.
I'd be amazed if you could pull this off for under $400 and then you need another $350 for tramps! I also suspect there isn't that big of a demand for these so the ROI on working through all the issues would be pretty low. If someone were to sell 20 pair of these I'd be shocked. And don't forget what it takes to ship a set of 8' wings, it is incredible expensive.
All that being said we have a H21 that is missing 1 wing so we might be working through some of the issues.
Are people serious about this? Given past experience you can count on 10-20% of the people who say they want one to actually order it. I'm not in this for any money, but it would be a lot of work and I'd need to bug some of my auto-cad buddies to pull it off.
-Eric[/quote]
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