Well ive been quite busy in me spare time producing these gauge holders and others based on the same idea along with many other parts and selling them all over the World (lol keeps me in carbon and epoxy without upsetting the wife) In fact its turning into quite a little business with enquiries for making other parts as well. At least the molds are put to good use instead of making one part for myself then putting the mold under the workbench.
Nice, how much without the gauges? Gauge size too?
and just one more
Hi jim, the tripple ones are for the Sierra Cosworth also the Merkur and are for 52mm gauges, already sold 5 of these to the States. The one shown in the top pic has the gauges slanted towards the driver slightly (RHD) but i do another one basically the same but without the slant (LHD or RHD) Been selling like hot cakes, normal price is £30.00 posted anywhere in the World.
Baz
P.S the second pic is one i have just produced for the Ford Fiesta (produced as a result of enough requests)
Sorry jim on looking again the top pic does not have the slant, but this pic below does, the customer requested it to be carbon but painted satin black. In this pic you can see the small carbon retaining clips, one is slightly sprung the other rigid.
Baz
Hey Baz…howd you do the retaining clips? That could help me with some problem parts I end up trying and thinking too much about.
LOL hybrid, the damn retaining clips for the various holders give me headaches thinking of how to hold parts in place. For the one in the top pic, once i decided on the shape i needed (lots of head scratching) i made an alluminium form about 2 inches long for the shape of the clip. Then made a small box from plastic sheet, suspended the form in the box and poured some epoxy resin (slow setting)demold it, sand it back and remove the form. Then depending on whether i wanted a non sprung clip or a sprung one i would use epoxy and 3 or 4 layers of carbon for a non sprung type wet it out on some plastic place it on one side of my clip mold and then clamp the other half to it. For a sprung type i used the same 3 or 4 layers but used per resin and once removed from mold and cut to the required lengths i found by flexing it by hand it would break the bond at (quite by chance)exactly the right point i needed for it to flex and spring. I suppose you could use a flex agent added to the resin if you wanted but this works perfectly for my purposes.
I have another type of clip for the second holder in the pic above, its ready to be removed from its mold so ill do a pic of that for you. This time i made a form from alluminium again but just for the size of the clip then used plastic to make the form.
The first pic is the clip mold with carbon in place (hardened)for the top gauge holder, this was the first clip mold i made, it`s from per and still going strong after about 30 pulls. The second pic is the clip mold for the second holder ready for demolding. i can get between 4 and 8 clips per pull depending on clip type.
Baz
And the second clip mold.
are the casings around the back of the gauges made of c/f and attached to the part too?
I see what you mean they do look as if they could be carbon but that would make me really clever. They are the gauge clamps as supplied by Auto Meter. The little shaped clips are carbon though.
Baz
do yo attach those to the product? or are they simple to install afterwards?
They come as part of the gauge and with the two thumb nuts tighten to hold the gauge in place.
Baz