Re: [Chrysler300] C (and D and E?) armrest bases

["Fern" <crc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My suggestion is that they be made out of wood and this would eliminate this warpage problem once and for all.   Fern


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Keith Boonstra 
  To: rob kern ; Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 9:59 AM
  Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] C (and D and E?) armrest bases


    Ah, yes. I remember now there was someone - and turns out it was you, 
  Rob - who had fashioned a set out of wood. But then, it seems to me 
  perhaps someone else did a pair in wood and then painted them in a 
  glossy tan. Nice solution, but I sure would rather figure out a way to 
  do them in plastic if possible. We could quite easily make up a pair (or 
  even a significant quantity) in wood at my plant (an architectural 
  millwork company) if that's what it came down to; but even though I've 
  been a wood guy for fifty-some years, somehow I guess I'm too purist, 
  and it would forever bug me that they were not plastic.

  That said, I would far rather see the Club take on this project than to 
  enter the realm of being a parts manufacturer/financier/marketer 
  myself. I'll continue talking to some value sources who seem as though 
  they hold promise, but "at the end of the day" (as every politician 
  these days says) I would just as soon help the Club find and arrange for 
  production, and then leave it for the Club to take over the finance, 
  inventory, and sales functions. I hope the Club considers this a good, 
  worthwhile, and profitable project.

  BTW I learned from Tom Cox that the trick to putting replies out to the 
  whole 300 group is to click "Reply to All" in a response.

  Thanks,
  Keith Boonstra

  rob kern wrote:
  Keith,
  Sounds like a worthy project. Six years ago I gave my warped 
  armrest bases for my C to a woodworker who used them as a template and 
  reproduced the bases out of hardwood. I paid $110 for the pair and sent 
  them to Gary Goers who covered them with the same vinyl he used to 
  refurbish my armrest pads. They look and perform perfectly. No worries 
  about warpage. Apparently the originals were made out of a nylon polymer 
  that couldn't hold up to heat and UV rays like other plastics of that 
  era. You may want to explore having them fashioned out of hardwood 
  versus having to go through a plastics engineer, etc. 300'ly, ROB KERN
  -----


  


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