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Started by rumb, 27 January 2016, 07:47 AM

Squiggle Dog

I was under the impression that these were just made of rubber so they wouldn't break when hitting an object. I suppose it would be possible for me to make a "poor man's" version of it, just getting a long length of dense rubber, cutting it to shape with a rotary tool, then attaching it to an L-bracket up top. Not original by any means, of course.
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1967 W110 Universal Wagon, Euro, Turbo Diesel, Tail Fins, 4 Speed Manual Column Shift, A/C
1980 W116 300SD Turbo Diesel, DB479 Walnut Brown, Sunroof, Heated Seats, 350,000+

UTn_boy

Quote from: Squiggle Dog on 13 December 2017, 04:04 PM
I was under the impression that these were just made of rubber so they wouldn't break when hitting an object. I suppose it would be possible for me to make a "poor man's" version of it, just getting a long length of dense rubber, cutting it to shape with a rotary tool, then attaching it to an L-bracket up top. Not original by any means, of course.

No,  They weren't rubber.  They were made out of nylon propylene.  I suppose it does resemble rubber, but rubber would have been too heavy and soft. 
1966 250se coupe`,black/dark green leather
1970 600 midnight blue/parchment leather
1971 300sel 6.3,papyrus white/dark red leather
1975 450se, pine green metallic/green leather
1973 300sel 4.5,silver blue metallic/blue leather
1979 450sel 516 red/bamboo

Squiggle Dog

Quote from: UTn_boy on 13 December 2017, 04:10 PM
No,  They weren't rubber.  They were made out of nylon propylene.  I suppose it does resemble rubber, but rubber would have been too heavy and soft.

It's not the same material that the flexible piece that goes between the front bumper and body on the North American models have, is it? Which is also the same as the side pieces on the North American bumpers? That material seems like it would be suitable, but maybe that's nylon propylene?
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1967 W110 Universal Wagon, Euro, Turbo Diesel, Tail Fins, 4 Speed Manual Column Shift, A/C
1980 W116 300SD Turbo Diesel, DB479 Walnut Brown, Sunroof, Heated Seats, 350,000+

UTn_boy

Quote from: Squiggle Dog on 13 December 2017, 04:13 PM
Quote from: UTn_boy on 13 December 2017, 04:10 PM
No,  They weren't rubber.  They were made out of nylon propylene.  I suppose it does resemble rubber, but rubber would have been too heavy and soft.

It's not the same material that the flexible piece that goes between the front bumper and body on the North American models have, is it? Which is also the same as the side pieces on the North American bumpers? That material seems like it would be suitable, but maybe that's nylon propylene?

No, it's not the same as those pieces on U.S. bumpers.  Those pieces are a formed rubber composite.     
1966 250se coupe`,black/dark green leather
1970 600 midnight blue/parchment leather
1971 300sel 6.3,papyrus white/dark red leather
1975 450se, pine green metallic/green leather
1973 300sel 4.5,silver blue metallic/blue leather
1979 450sel 516 red/bamboo

rumb

I'm looking into TP-4014 Innothane

hardness shore D =  70
flexural strength psi = @5000
flexural modulus psi = @130,000
elongation at break  = @60%
'68 250S
'77 6.9 Euro
'91 300SE,
'98 SL500
'14 CLS550,
'16 AMG GTS
'21 E450 Cabrio

rumb

Received baffle plate from Germany and mounted to lower panel, getting ready to send to manufacturer.

'68 250S
'77 6.9 Euro
'91 300SE,
'98 SL500
'14 CLS550,
'16 AMG GTS
'21 E450 Cabrio

s class

Well done for your efforts so far.  Much appreciated. 


[color=blue]'76 6.9 Euro[/color], [color=red]'78 6.9 AMG[/color], '80 280SE, [color=brown]'74 350SE[/color], [color=black]'82 500SEL euro full hydro, '83 500SEL euro full hydro [/color], '81 500SL

rumb

I abandoned this project as the quote was extremely high, but now this one shows up on ebay.de for a lot more that it would cost me to make them.  Of course it's the first one I have seen for sale in 4 years.

For those of you that thought $450 for one of these was too high, hold on to your pants when you see what he wants.


https://www.ebay.de/itm/Mercedes-w116-6-9-stostange-spolier-Nos/232934745905?hash=item363bfe2731:g:RcQAAOSwty5borld
'68 250S
'77 6.9 Euro
'91 300SE,
'98 SL500
'14 CLS550,
'16 AMG GTS
'21 E450 Cabrio

daantjie

These are the infamous French brothers selling their stuff at outrageously inflated prices as Stan and others will attest to.
One day we will find a stash of these or they will get repopped once 116 values rise. Simple economics.
Daniel
1977 450 SEL 6.9 - Astralsilber

floyd111

There's still the option in glass fiber and/or carbon, made in Taiwan. Prices are somewhere in this thread. Not for profit, but if there's interest, I can set it up. PU extrusion is simply too costly, with the molds required