aemeijers wrote:
Steve Daniels wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:16:05 -0400, against all advice, something
compelled Nate Nagel , to say:

Would styrene be strong enough?



Styrene is pretty brittle. It's usually mixed in with other
plastics to give it a shiny appearance. You'd probably be
happier with polypropylene. It has some flex to it, and is
stronger.

Don't know where you'd get it, though.




We might be able to make some better suggestions, if we had a link to a
picture of the part in question, both alone and as part of the end
assembly.

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aem sends...

I don't have a pic, but it's the little fiddly bit that goes on the rear
tower for a 3-door installation in the following link...

http://www.thuleracks.com/instructio...05,%202047.pdf

basically the smallest piece shown in the parts list.

actual size is less than an inch wide and maybe an inch and a quarter
long. there's about a 1/16" groove in it where it slides into the
tower, hence my thought to make it by laminating together different
thicknesses of sheet and then just shape it to match on sander.

nate

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