The Ubiquitous Demister Grille
- Thread starter JIMMYMAC
- Start date
How much is that thing worth anyway?
Brett James-McCall
Moderator
Phil how much for one of those :O)
Brett
Brett
Man, I was thinking the same thing! Nice work. I love to see what quality work some of you on this forum can produce. Truly remarkable.
Wow
I wasn't anticipating a demand. Just posted a photo for "show and tell" as it were. Give me a day or so and I will look at my drawing and dimensions to see what it costs. BTW I made that one from 1/8" 6061 sheet and the slots are angled similarly to the original. The final finish is a semi-flat powder coat. That particular grill fits a GTD dash opening, but I suppose it could be made to fit any configuration...I will post by Friday 6/15 and we can go from there.
Thanks to all you gents for the interest, and congrats Bill, that car should be done soon.
Cheers
Phil
I wasn't anticipating a demand. Just posted a photo for "show and tell" as it were. Give me a day or so and I will look at my drawing and dimensions to see what it costs. BTW I made that one from 1/8" 6061 sheet and the slots are angled similarly to the original. The final finish is a semi-flat powder coat. That particular grill fits a GTD dash opening, but I suppose it could be made to fit any configuration...I will post by Friday 6/15 and we can go from there.
Thanks to all you gents for the interest, and congrats Bill, that car should be done soon.
Cheers
Phil
How much? set one aside for me.
That demister grill from MDA looks pretty good, closer to original than my copy.
I calculated my time on mine and figured I spent two hours fabbing the grill, and most of that was re-fixturing to set the angles for the slots. I can't say that in all practicality that I could make more pieces cheap enough to sell here on the forum. I think the material cost and powder coat are the cheapest aspects of the job, with the machining being the big time hog.
I had talked to a friend with a CNC machine center asking about maybe having him do the work to my prints, but his answer was the cost of fixturing the angles might be prohibitive since the head is fixed requiring an angled fixture. I would suggest looking into that grill from MDA, I don't know what they are asking for it but it looks like there was substantial time and money spent on a set of dies and punches to make that part, and like anything if you make enough to be cost effective the price will come down.
At this point I am going to try to devise a simple fixture to hold the piece so that costs will be substantially lower and I can offer this part at a reasonable price....I would guess around $65-$70 bucks supplied powder coated with hardware.
Will have some results soon.
Cheers
Phil
I calculated my time on mine and figured I spent two hours fabbing the grill, and most of that was re-fixturing to set the angles for the slots. I can't say that in all practicality that I could make more pieces cheap enough to sell here on the forum. I think the material cost and powder coat are the cheapest aspects of the job, with the machining being the big time hog.
I had talked to a friend with a CNC machine center asking about maybe having him do the work to my prints, but his answer was the cost of fixturing the angles might be prohibitive since the head is fixed requiring an angled fixture. I would suggest looking into that grill from MDA, I don't know what they are asking for it but it looks like there was substantial time and money spent on a set of dies and punches to make that part, and like anything if you make enough to be cost effective the price will come down.
At this point I am going to try to devise a simple fixture to hold the piece so that costs will be substantially lower and I can offer this part at a reasonable price....I would guess around $65-$70 bucks supplied powder coated with hardware.
Will have some results soon.
Cheers
Phil
Brett James-McCall
Moderator
Phil,
Any updates on your progress?
Brett
Any updates on your progress?
Brett
Similar threads
