Ferdco Monster Machine Sewing Up To 3 Inch Thickness

[Anne Bonnys Locker]

Certainly is a problem!

For the machine to be worth anything more than collector value it would have to come with a complete set of production drawings - particularly for the needle. Given time and money anything can be made but we are talking a hell of a lot more money if you have to make a needle without a drawing or at least sample.

I still cannot see how it could have been made for sewing the heat ablative tiles! My suspicion is that there must have been some other material under consideration. To sew the tiles you would need to drill holes and for that I would have taken a CNC vertical mill where one head drilled the hole and the second position on the turret was the sewing head. The third position on the turret could have injected whatever compound was necessary to seal the hole.

Apart from other problems it still would not solve the issue of the tiles being brittle and being damaged by debris from the three fuel tanks/rockets and adds another variable with the thread being exposed.

I would still love to have the bloody thing!

Hi Greg, I was wondering about the same thing. It will not make it any easier that Ferdco now is closed.