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Old 04-16-2013, 11:37 PM   #11 (permalink)
Blue Angel
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Originally Posted by Shepherd777 View Post
If you want to buy 10,000, they'll talk to you.
This is no surprise!

Do they use a hard coating "waterfall" process? We supplied the side door appliques for the Buick LaCrosse and Chevy Impala in the Oshawa plant, and they were injection molded Polypropylene with a liquid hard coat. I never did see the process in person, but was told the parts were loaded into fixtures on a conveyor and passed through a flowing sheet of fluid (like a waterfall). They were then cured while dripping any excess coating material.

The finish on these parts was excellent... glass smooth and apparently very hard and scratch resistant. I was told a similar process was used on some headlight lenses also, but nobody was doing production glass with this method 6-7 years ago that I was aware of.

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