Metal Morphous Exceeds My Expectations

[2yrproject]

Ron at Metal Morphous just sent me the pics of my hood after installing the louvers and having the underside metal plated.

He has created a true work of art with my hood.

Here's what he started with after I supplied the louvers:



After he fit them into my hood:



Now metal plated underside:





Just awesome. Thanks Ron !!

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[cobracruz]

WOW!!!
What does metal plated mean? Did he shape a sheet of metal to the form of the underhood? Looks phenomenal. Hopefully I'll see in person if you attend one of the gatherings.

[Todd Baumann]

Very nice my friend. Keep up the incredible work.
Todd

[Steven K]

Amazing. I wonder how many hours they have in it.

[mn12]

Originally Posted by cobracruz

WOW!!!
What does metal plated mean? Did he shape a sheet of metal to the form of the underhood? Looks phenomenal. Hopefully I'll see in person if you attend one of the gatherings.

He has a special (top secret) process that applies a thin layer of aluminum to whatever he is coating

[EdwardR]

I'll see if I can find the photo of the plating application equipment and the flash cool chamber but in the meantime this might help explain how it's done


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In the middle of everything that has been going on here I have been working on plating a heat sensitive material I have fried up about 10 of this but after some trial and error I now can say we can safely aluminum plate areas such as what you see in the picture The full scale Sky Chief's ailerons were made of material, go figure, the entire plane was aluminum but the ailerons, so I made them out of balsa and covered them in a silver mono-coat, well I didn't like the color next to the aluminum , so I figured I would just place them in the plating equipment and be done with it. I configured the machine for plastic and sent it through, to my surprise the flash cool was way to hot and burned up the mono-coat So I cleaned them up and applied new mono-coat re-calibrated the machine and this time set it up for styrofoam. Too cool, no adhesion, I did this 7 more times before get the equipment dialed in and now its perfect, the mono-coat is tight but still is flexible. I wanted this to look like a different material like on the full scale so I used some steel wool to dull down the finish. What do you think?

[More1Putts]

That looks fantastic. I would have never thought to do that.

[Detour_racing]

That is amazing work!!

[2yrproject]

Ron describes the process: "metal such as aluminum, bronze. copper ect. is heated to a liquid state and a polymer is added as its atomized over the subsurface using our custom built application equipment, then the subsurface is flash cooled."

I'm currently running my car without the hood, but once I get it back from Ron, will decide if I will use the FFR hinges or go with the Breeze setup. Haven't taken it to too many events yet, still sorting through a few mechanical issues. I'm hoping to take the car to Jeff Miller's early next Spring for paint and make it to the HB show.

Originally Posted by cobracruz

WOW!!!
What does metal plated mean? Did he shape a sheet of metal to the form of the underhood? Looks phenomenal. Hopefully I'll see in person if you attend one of the gatherings.

[2yrproject]

My hood arrived the other day. Here's a few pics while mocked up on my car with leather hood straps.

[EdwardR]

Wow!! Those leather hood straps are like the icing on a cake!!!
I never would have thought of doing that... Beautiful!!

[Jack be Quick]

I love the underside hood treatment. That is waaaay cool.

[2yrproject]

Thanks for all the compliments, I'm very pleased with out it turned out.

Originally Posted by Todd Baumann

Very nice my friend. Keep up the incredible work.
Todd

Todd, hope your rebuild is going well, I'm sure your roadster will turn out better than new once it's all finished.