And that's that...

Clamshell progress. First real step forward with these to date.

After some fine trimming, I finally got the two halves to orient, and locate, fairly well together.

I used some foam core to pull the sides together.

I then cut the core at the part's seam.




Whoa, they still want to line up. Straight up miracle status.

Good enough for the girls I go with.

The last step is to experiment with magnets, or possibly Velcro, to actually attach the pieces together. There is a fastener that holds the bottom section to the ignition switch, so I just need a way to join them together.

I'm hopeful with the result so far. Definitely the farthest I've gotten.




And yeah....

Sand sand sand. Smooth smooth smooth.



This post was edited by OldAndyAndTheSea on Jan 18 2016 04:40pm

Magnetic strip tape: Fail

Velcro strip tape: WINNAR!


Velcro to the rescue. The concept works. Awesome!

The future clamshells will be cored, during production, to fine tune the Velcro mating surface.

Proof of concept. Thrown together.








I'll add a couple more areas of Velcro to close up any remaining, offensive, gaps.

Shaky shaky! An added benefit of Velcro over magnets is vibration resistance. Sweet!

http://vid524.photobucket.com/albums/cc327/twofortyz/Mobile%20Uploads/VID_20160119_130139257_zpsevijlaim.mp4





This post was edited by OldAndyAndTheSea on Jan 19 2016 07:34pm

And I received my steering wheel hub today. Lots more stuff coming throughout the week.



Low profile - I personally hate the look of the cheaper hubs, with that corrugated, accordion-esque, slip cover.

No bolts though....Booo.....c'mon NRG!





It's cold....I don't wanna work out in the garage..

I can't begin to count the number of times once of these saved my life in Wisconsin. I even still have two of them and I've been in Houston for almost 3 years LOL

i have 3 lol, 1 in the race car trailer, 1 in the shop, and 1 thats more mobile lol

also have a smudgepot/burn barrel in the shop

Careful with the velcro in heat, shit always fails for me and runs and leaves horrid adhesive everywhere. If the car will be sitting in any decent heat think of hot gluing the velcro down so this doesn't happen over time .