Re: Repairing '55 Clipper seat panels
Posted by BH On 2017/7/10 7:31:15
HH56 wrote: Quote:
...vacuum forming. Problem with trying to do that today is the cost of the steel mold.
As best I recall, Studebaker used some sort of composite material for vacu-formed Avanti pieces. A one-sided affair, the mold was actually made to correspond to the
inside shape of the part. In the case of the dash pad, the plastic sheet was already-grained - alleviating the need for costly etching of an outside mold.
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