Okay, lets have "another head count" on these phase 1 headlamp rims.
Last time I got a price on manufacture of these I really needed 10 pairs (that's 20 rims) to start the ball rolling. I can get 66no blanks cut from brass. These I have to pay up front in one go.
Then from this "stock" I can get batches spun, worked on a tool, polished, plated,polished, chromed.
I'm sure I had someone come up to me and ask for a pair but I'm buggered if I can remember who, please email me AND add your name here.
This also raises the question of fixing holes. I have two fixing points on my rims and they are still on the car after 20 years road use. Standard they had one ( as far as I can tell) and most of them didn't make it out of Slough (like a lot of people too!)
Basing the figures on people here and on these threads:
"Last time I got a price on manufacture of these I really needed 10 pairs (that's 20 rims) to start the ball rolling. I can get 66no blanks cut from brass. These I have to pay up front in one go.
Then from this "stock" I can get batches spun, worked on a tool, polished, plated,polished, chromed.
Sorry for not getting back to you all, I've been chasing all the different process' to get cost in...and still am! I will endevour to get somewhere very soon (work is swamping me at the moment) Below is a final head count?
OK kids, looking at the quantities we have and talking to all concerned we're looking at a finished cost of £160 per pair. I think that is a very reasonable price for solid brass and chrome.
If you were to see a pair of them hanging up at Beaulieu auto jumble would you expect them to be less??
just a quick update. I have some material at the metal basher's at the moment and they are trying different approaches to forming the peak.....I await the outcome with breath that is bated.......
I've had mine 3-D printed in metal last year! The material is like stainless steel and easy to polish to a chrome-like shine or no problem to have chrome plated if wanted.
As I've only had two pairs made, the costs were high but the programme still exists and if we get a decent amount of orders together, I can have them made within a very short time!
Hi Mike and all the other stalwarts who support what I am trying to do here.......
I have talked to the guys producing the "spun" part of the project and they have told me they have rejected the first tooling set that was produced as it was not up to their standard ( I believe this is produced "out of house") and
the new tool should be in next week. I have asked them to let me know when so I can go and inspect it (and understand/discuss the differences) and I'm pushing hard for a prototype/sample.
Thanks for your patience on this project and your understanding that this is not my day job...I try to do this after my day job...and my day job seems to take up every day......which seems to get later and later in the evenings too!