Proper EARLY rain tray- Success? NO!, Saga continues |
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Proper EARLY rain tray- Success? NO!, Saga continues |
Pat Garvey |
Jul 26 2007, 09:31 PM
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Do I or don't I...........? Group: Members Posts: 5,899 Joined: 24-March 06 From: SE PA, near Philly Member No.: 5,765 Region Association: North East States |
I've been searching for 4 years now for an early rain tray. I have my original, but it is trash because it split at one of the mountings. And, there is NO glue that will put it back together. Porsche used some sort of imperious plastic for these things!
I just counted them up (the responses indicating that the HAVE ONE & IT'S PERFECT) 87! Guess how many of the 87 had the proper part - 3! Guess how many had a useable part? ZERO! Isn't there someone out there with a flat bottomed rain tray that they want to make some money on? Yeah, I know, this doesn't belong on this forum. I'm desperate & about to give up! Please ..... help me! You can flame away after I find one..... Never mind - doesn't belong on this forum. Sorry. Desperate! Pat |
GWN7 |
Dec 6 2007, 11:49 PM
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King of Road Trips Group: Members Posts: 6,280 Joined: 31-December 02 From: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Member No.: 56 Region Association: Northstar Region |
This is the first time I've read this thread....... plastics such as the rain tray are done by injection molding. The plastic is heated and forced into a mold under preassure. Water then runs thru the mold and cools the plastic and the two parts of the mold come apart leaving you with the finished product.
To develop a mold to make new ones would cost about $20K (I had a buddy that worked at a local injection molding place)....that is if you were going to make them in any volume....such as producing 100,000 or so for a producton run of cars (why Porsche changed them after one or two years worth of production run I don't know). That would make the mold development per piece about $5 per. Pretty cheap in the cost of a $4,000 car. I could make them, but the mold development cost would be around $3000 (that's estimated...might be higher) and if I had a perfect one to use as a pattern. What the final cost per piece would be depends on how much of a demand there is for them. It's always the first one that costs the most. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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