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Extract2th
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If this is a go, I would be in for 1 set as well. Any updates to this?
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Shane Blake
Current Cars & Projects: 1968 AMX 1970 Gremlin 1970 Javelin SST 1973 Javelin 1977 Hornet AMX 1979 Spirit AMX 1988 Eagle wagon Parts Cars/Future Projects: 1970 Javelin SST, 1972 Gremlin |
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racerkilla
AMC Nut Joined: Mar/08/2010 Location: Jeffersonville Status: Offline Points: 359 |
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I just bought a single mint passenger side louver. I bought a molding agent that I am going to make a hard mold out of I hope next weekend. From there I will be buying 1/8 hdpe plastic sheets to vacuum mold them. The original louver wasn't even 1/8 thick so the new plastic will actually be an upgrade.
I have been waiting for my single louver to show up. I didn't want to hurt any of the sets I have on my cars. I will be able to practice with this one until I get it to work. If I can get it to work on the passenger louver I bought I will be pulling a driver side off my amx and copying that one. I was going to have a company mold them but cost a bit of money up front to get it going. I rather do it with my friend as a project and try to keep the price down.
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racerkilla
AMC Nut Joined: Mar/08/2010 Location: Jeffersonville Status: Offline Points: 359 |
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So made some progress today.My friend and I hard molded the passenger louver. It come out very good for the first time ever doing this. The hard mold just needs the slats(area that will be cut out) sanded down before vacuum molding. I now have a mold I can use over and over with out damaging my original louver.
I am hoping to make the vacuum molding set up sometime soon and see how it comes out. If it works out good we will be repeating the process on the driver side louver Pics for now |
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garsod
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Looks Great.........
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83GT
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Progress....very cool!!
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SPIRITAMX79
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I'd buy a set. Sending PM now
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DaleG
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Looks great. I saw that passenger side one on ebay and it did look good but I didn't bid on it because having only one side would have been worthless to me. Glad that you are working on this. Thank you for your efforts.
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DaleG
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I wonder if it would be possible to do a rear one as a multi-piece kit. There is an instructional page called How To Make Rear Louvers for an SX/4 - AMC Evolution on another site where the guy was making them out of aluminum flashing but I'd rather have plastic
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racerkilla
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The passenger side one on ebay was the one I bought and used to make the mold. It cost me 125 shipped but I wanted it for this project. I didn't want to pull any sets off my car and chance damaging them. With that being said the molding process went very. So I will be pulling the driver side off my white amx to mold as I did the one above.
I will molding the driver side after I know I can vacuum form of the passenger mold to produce a nice piece. I have no plans on doing the rear one at this time. Maybe someday...
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garsod
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Great to hear. Wish I could be there to help.
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