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11-18-2006, 10:05 AM
A couple months ago I was asked to make some billet suspension arms for a company building custom Rhino's.
I thought it would be a cool idea, side by sides are booming right now.
He already had prints, which is always a plus, since I don't have to engineer the part for free it seems, just to get the job.
He shows me the prints and as I am looking them over they are WEAK. I don't mean styling weak.
They looked real nice for something for show, or something that wasn't going to go out in the dunes and be jumped.
3/4 thick bar/plate machined down on the sides with a cool design. Windows everywhere, real small spars too. He wouldn't change the design, wouldn't budge a 1/16 of an inch.
Anyhoooo.....I turned the job down. The money was there, and he even offered more money when I said I wouldn't build them. He wasn't very happy with me either.
I may be liable if something happened because of their malfunction, I may not. I am not sure. I just didn't have a good feeling about it.
So he shows up yesterday with a sweet looking Rhino in tow to show off his arms he found someone else to make. The picture I had in my head what they would look like when done was exactly what they looked like "in the flesh."
Whoever built them did a nice job, I couldn't have done better myself. But man do they look weak.
Brian
I thought it would be a cool idea, side by sides are booming right now.
He already had prints, which is always a plus, since I don't have to engineer the part for free it seems, just to get the job.
He shows me the prints and as I am looking them over they are WEAK. I don't mean styling weak.
They looked real nice for something for show, or something that wasn't going to go out in the dunes and be jumped.
3/4 thick bar/plate machined down on the sides with a cool design. Windows everywhere, real small spars too. He wouldn't change the design, wouldn't budge a 1/16 of an inch.
Anyhoooo.....I turned the job down. The money was there, and he even offered more money when I said I wouldn't build them. He wasn't very happy with me either.
I may be liable if something happened because of their malfunction, I may not. I am not sure. I just didn't have a good feeling about it.
So he shows up yesterday with a sweet looking Rhino in tow to show off his arms he found someone else to make. The picture I had in my head what they would look like when done was exactly what they looked like "in the flesh."
Whoever built them did a nice job, I couldn't have done better myself. But man do they look weak.
Brian