His career was effectively ended by a serious accident at Montjuich Park, Spain in 1985, although he didn’t retire until 1991. This article tells a Reverse Engineering tale that started as a conversation in a pub, and ended up helping bring back what was left of the Ducati 750 TT Rutter rode in Spain.
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Our Technical Product Manager, Nick Pericli, based in our Haddeham office, met mechanic, Guy Taylor, at his local pub. Guy mentioned he was rebuilding Tony Rutter’s Ducati racer bike and could not find a carburettor for it.
"This particular bike that we're looking at here was actually built up out of what was left of the crashed 750 and obviously, as anything of this sort of era, which is bespoke, is very hard to come by with parts for it. My personal history with the bike is of such of being a mechanic preparing the bike and helping with the race team.”
The aim of the project was to show the whole Reverse Engineering process right from 3D scanning all the way up to a completely finished part. Guy continues, “Nick Pericli showed me SOLIDWORKS, which I was very impressed with and then from there a 3D printed carburettor came to life.”
Nick explains, “We got a carburettor through a contact, we actually 3D scanned that. It's a bit like taking a photograph but it's three dimensionally accurate and the scan that I've produced for this project was accurate to about 25 micron. So it's plenty accurate enough for what we needed”.
Still the question is: would it actually work? Click on the video above or head to our YouTube channel to find out!