Hey guys,
I was playing golf today with one of my best mates who is a Aerodynamicist, he designs cars for a top Formula1 team, and has access to one of the biggest wind tunnels in the world. He also has had a major golf company ask him to research some of their drivers to see if he could improve on their new designs. Anyway, he started talking about Rolls Royce's Jet turbine blades that have been in the wind tunnels, and that they are cast with some new-uber-cool-technology. They used to be milled out of solid nickel alloy, but now are made from three sheets of some titanium alimunide or something, blown in a mold at like 1400*C (i think). way lighter and stronger through this technique. Anyway, the bottom and top sheet are the outside of the blade and the middle sheet zig-zags inside for strength, these babies need to rotate at something like 180,000 rpm or some stupid number, and still maintains its strength at like 800*C..... but would still crack with Joe Miller hitting FX Golds with it hahahaha
how are driver heads made? are most of them welded in 2 parts? would driver heads be more durable for LD freaks if they were made similar to these blades? would you component companies need a billion dollar bankroll to find out?
anyway, I have no clue about how drivers are made, so maybe you guys are already on it! is this the future or most probably I'm just talking gibberish
still think that the DCT is the future baby!!!!!!!
Since all heads are made in Mainland China for the most part, WuTang. You are also limited to their technology and production methods....in otherwords, what they can do. I just spoke to a friend of mine asking about some advice...and he mentions that his foundry doesn't even have a or use a CT monitor system! Go figure that. Now granted the Chinese are very very good at what they do..but, when I ask my foundry engineers if they have come up with anything new i.e. applications, materials, etc. etc. NOTHING! So, I must come up with different protos etc. on my own and a couple of Ph.D's and/or a metallurgist whom I rely on for some questions I am concerned about in my designs. Inasmuch as the high tech you speak of....no way. Unless of course it was done in the USA...but the cost factor would be ridiculously expensive. And you are not talking gibberish...quite frankly, it is a matter of the Chinese getting much more involved in newer and better techniques, which they do...but, just too slow on the uptake. I need answers about materials and basic design functions concerning what they can and can't do or do not want to do. I am trying to make the best heads and designs out there to compete against the Majors and it's one F headache after another trying to tell them exactly what should be.
But, over time and with dealing with the right foundry engineer (who actually cares) you may hit on something that will work rather stunningly...the main problem is that you are dealing with sales people...who just like everywhere else...just want the order.
It is a very tedious process with an original design concept. Which is why most use foundry designs and put their spin on them.
And on that note......WT...thanks for the plug!
