Surely it's an extrusion?
OT:Fleecing, grasping companies
Oct 01, 2012
28 Replies
Plastic deformation; and don't call me Shirley.
The dogshit? I suppose you could call it that.
Only if you're talking about injection moulding. Mudguards should be vac-formable for very low cost.
Otherwise find dustbins / washing up bowls or garden pond liners and saw out a ready-moulded section.
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for the wary:
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's the 2nd picture: "Mudguard Fixe"
For a smallish run, I'd expect that to be fibreglass.
They seem to be carbon fibre, for some reason, which would explain the cost.
That's in case the user accidentally finds themselves on the track during a formula 1 race, and needs to get out of the way pronto.
I would not have thought them a suitable shape for vacuum forming, unless they had a very limited arc of effect.
Colin Bignell
You would be surprised.
Remember there is only one really big axis to cope with.
vacform runs into s*it when you need a 3D shape - mudguards are really
2D and a bit.
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