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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:57 pm
by veecee
DAN THE MAN!!!
mario - injection moulding is the way to go, but the tooling is waay to expensive no???
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:23 am
by widowmaker
expensive - and it might look good for a couple of months until the sun makes it go blob
i was thinking to cut the lenses off first and then to thermoform polyethylene/carbonate sheets to go back on like what clearcornersdotcom does as far as i gather, after chooning the lights to personalise them of course
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:32 am
by widowmaker
sooo big mike, HAAU MAATCH? (and where the ell is this littleton?)
maybe next meeting you bring along? me love you looong time
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:52 am
by ChemCool
maybe next meeting you bring along? me love you looong time
What? Do have a new gay thing on here???
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:16 am
by widowmaker
new, no big boy, same old same old
you feeling left out?
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:42 am
by mario_200sx
good news,
im seeing my contact for the injection moulding this weekend, so hopefully he can come up with a few answers!!
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:29 am
by widowmaker
ask him if he can "chrome" plastic (for the backing) - i have read about how they do it long time ago, but cant remember - think it is just some fancy paint or something
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:27 pm
by mario_200sx
Spoke to my uncle. Moulds cost too much too make. Its about R30 000 a pop. the moulds are made from metal.
so they need to machine it from scratch and that type of engineering is the expensive part.
color and things like that is a breeze. so if anybody knows somebody who can make the moulds then we can perhaps make a plan.
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:11 pm
by Ero_sennin
sheesh thats expensive
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:18 pm
by veecee
ya - injection moulding is worth it if you're going to make hundreds of thousands of the same product.
in our case - totally not worth it!!!
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:19 pm
by Ero_sennin
yup