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rubber door buffers
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Jeff Howarth
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Hi, its me thats listed them and somke other stuff.
does anyone have the facility to make these? If so I will pull the auction and make them available to be used for copying.
regards
Jeff aka KBD23C (its the licence plate on my first Sunbeam)
does anyone have the facility to make these? If so I will pull the auction and make them available to be used for copying.
regards
Jeff aka KBD23C (its the licence plate on my first Sunbeam)
gordonra
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If you can make an accurate sketch of them, I'd make a 3D CAD model and drawing for documenting it.
Need to know what the steel plate thickness and dims, as well as those for the rubber overmold. It'd be good to know the durometer of the rubber too.
If the steel plate size is not apparent, perhaps someone that has deteroriated pieces can contribute.
McMaster Carr (www.mcmaster.com) has a good chart for equating or approximating the durometer of rubber to a scale. Check this link:
http://www.mcmaster.com/#about-rubber-durometer-hardness/=3f92ku
If we have good docs, we can have it reproduced.
Need to know what the steel plate thickness and dims, as well as those for the rubber overmold. It'd be good to know the durometer of the rubber too.
If the steel plate size is not apparent, perhaps someone that has deteroriated pieces can contribute.
McMaster Carr (www.mcmaster.com) has a good chart for equating or approximating the durometer of rubber to a scale. Check this link:
http://www.mcmaster.com/#about-rubber-durometer-hardness/=3f92ku
If we have good docs, we can have it reproduced.
Alpine Bob
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If someone does repro them, I'll take 3 sets to start. Thanks Jeff for the gesture. I beleive alot of us will appreciate it.
ForzaDesign
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Team,
I believe I responded to this type of post some time back. As I own my product development consulting firm, I should be able to add some qualified input on this. As mentioned previously, these "buffers" were not made of "rubber/elastomer". They are in fact self skinning urethane foam molding. A solid elastomer would be to dense to "give" correctly. although a softer duromter material might give a functional feel. Perhaps a compression molded thermoset compound. There are some places producing this process. Tooling is not cheap. but could be manageable if enough parts were fabricated.
If anyone would like to pursue this further, please give me a holler if I can help.
Thanks,
Jim
I believe I responded to this type of post some time back. As I own my product development consulting firm, I should be able to add some qualified input on this. As mentioned previously, these "buffers" were not made of "rubber/elastomer". They are in fact self skinning urethane foam molding. A solid elastomer would be to dense to "give" correctly. although a softer duromter material might give a functional feel. Perhaps a compression molded thermoset compound. There are some places producing this process. Tooling is not cheap. but could be manageable if enough parts were fabricated.
If anyone would like to pursue this further, please give me a holler if I can help.
Thanks,
Jim