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Old 07-01-07, 05:36 PM
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HDFACTORYCERTIF
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I often work plastics in my machine shop and my friend has a plastics mold shop here.
I believe they have made many advancements in the last thirty years, I would wonder of the durability of a bike so old. I am not sure of if this is a new bike or an old one.
Looking at the bike, I am struck by the cost of the molds and the size of the molding machines required to form the frame and fork.
The modern plastics are formulated by blending beads of it, then its melted and pushed under extreme pressure into the mold. I find it interesting.
They do make the Glock handgun frame this way, with steel inserts where needed. I prefer the Colt Single Action Army however, let em rust.

Don

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