Re: [AMC-List] AMX Grilles

[Don Johnson <donjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,
I sent Dick at cyberfx a few pictures of my grille with dimentions and they 
will be able to give me some more info on Monday.
Who knows, maybe there are better ways to skin the cat today.
Don

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Jennings" <tomj@xxxxxxx>
To: <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Don Johnson" <donjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] AMX Grilles


> On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Don Johnson wrote:
>
>> Thank you for posting that info.
>> I looked into getting a mould done for the 70 AMX ( I have a NOS grille 
>> for the pattern). Here in Montreal, the cheapest injection mould was 
>> going to run me between $30K & $50K and I believe that included a laser 
>> scan in the production process. The mould was to be made out of metal and 
>> would have weighed about 5000 lbs.
>
> All that cyberfx does is the scan, and the foam model. From
> there molds would have to be made, etc,and I know zero zilch
> about that. Erika (friend getting the scan done) is gettin
> expert at thermosetting urethanes, epoxies, etc, and does
> human-sized transparent castings with near-zero bubbles.
> She's done bronze casting too. This stuff can be done.
>
> If someone were enterprising enough it would probably be doable
> to make your own mold -- depending on the complexity of the AMX
> grille, which I have never seen off a car -- and do one-off hand
> castings in some sort of epoxy resin, but that would require
> a research project. It's probably **just** doable at home,
> and probably a dozen hours per grille of hand labor. $$$ 

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