Conveyor belt material for air dams, etc
 

I have a lead on some Conveyor belting. Post in here if you have some interest and I will get a price.
It will be in 4' widths most likely, but I can cut it down if needed.

2 likes but not a single interest? That's just weird :D
I'll go with a dam down to about 9 inches above the ground on the truck. I plan on matching side skirts between front and rear wheels as well.

interest
 

No good deed goes unpunished?:p

I'm interested.
 

I have a trio of trucks that have torn off their factory air dams due to . . . stupidity. If the conveyor belt material is tough and economical enough, I can save myself from . . . myself.

Hi would be intrested but im in uk too far to put a deal together

I'm curious on the thickness/plys of the belting. I would be looking at two 4'x4' pieces to replace my aging Coroplast rear skirts. If it ends up being too pricey including shipping, I'll probably look at going locally with aluminum diamond plate like I did fer my rear diffuser. ;)

I might could be interested in enough material to equip my truck and my Durango with an air dam and possibly side skirts.

I will check it out next week.
Here is the ad:
repurposed/ reclaimed/ scrap conveyor belting
It does weigh up quickly, so I will get about 9' for my truck job and weigh it.
It does not need packaging beyond being taped securely in a roll.

I've often thought about some sort of material like that. If it is stiff enough I could run it to the road then not worry about dragging it through a parking lot.
I'm checking your link now.

I think if it is in a straight line it will bend back readily, after all it was designed to go around a relatively small roller. If you can make a slight arc with it, and support it halfway down with a backer rod of 1/4" steel it would behave nicely and still have that indestructible quality we desire. I'd just plan on any support being above the highest expected curb, so that is why I picked 9" for me. I want the whole thing above a typical curb, but if you put your backing support above the curb it should survive fine.

I appreciate the generosity of the offer. But I'm about 2000-miles away and assume I can find some in DFW when the time comes.

You've certainly convinced me that skirting is the practical approach.

That factory lip below your bumper is long gone on my ex logging truck. Seemed silly and costly to put back when I can improve on it.

The air dam question came up in about 2009. I walked around the parking lot with a steel tape measure and checked air dam lip height. New trucks and old. They were pretty much all with 10" ground clearance.

Still my understanding that "no lower than lowest component on undercarriage" is general rule of thumb.

Making a slightly deeper front dam, but adding side skirts down the body, is my interest in the material.

I will keep you all posted. As much as I dislike doing it, I will daily drive my truck some more this winter/spring to do testing.

I have some belting now! About 0.25 thick 3 ply with rubber in only one side. 5.875" width and some 10".
Shipping will be most of the cost. He had huge used rolls but this is new.
Let me know how long a piece and your zip code.

The ~6" wide stuff is plenty for most applications.

The legal lowest any body /suspension component can be from the ground is:
7.23" for a 245/75Rxx , 7.82" for a 265/75Rxx aka the bottom of the wheel. Simple math ... the width x aspect ratio =hight limit. Eg 245x.75xx=7.23. Thewheel size is of no concern.

This is to prevent a ground strike and loss of control, caused by a flat tire.

This is a justification for stupidly large wheels (20"+) it keeps the cops off your back.

Looks like $12 ( at the most) for flat rate shipping, and $1 a foot for the 6" and 2$ a foot for the 10"
Typical car dams are 5' long, trucks 6' long.
I'll get a picture of the stuff later, but it is simply black shiny rubber on the one side and the fabric on the other. I have not cut it yet but I anticipate it being easier to cut than the stuff with rubber on both sides of the fabric layers. Work it from the fabric side then fold it open to free up the grab on your razor knife blade.

they don't run around measuring, and a soft rubber edge won't have much of a ground strike anyway. More like a ground caress :)

Agreed but why dance with the devil's wife.
Plastic bumper covers on rice rockets and low riders . Are more the target of these laws. In my experience it has been used for harassing the rocketeers. Your 9"should be well above this safe limit of advice. ?will the 9" air dam be low enough to shroud the pumpkin? Just curious.

I will measure when it gets daylight. I was going to skirt the beetle right to the dirt for fun.
Front and sides.
Need to figure out a method for quick attach/detach. Love do do a long mpg ABA test.

This new belting I have is the thinnest at .250 All the used is .375 or greater.
I have their number and will ask if they have any 4' wide. I did not see any.
The used stuff is $1 a running foot, but it looks used. I think personally it is too heavy for large expanses of area.

9" above grade just shades my front differential. I would not care if it showed a little bit.
This equates to a 12" tall airdam, and will certainly need some backup to keep it from flopping in the breeze. looks like a 6" strip down the sides will be close enough at 10" above grade.

How much for 45 feet of the 6" belt material, shipped to 52405?

I don't know if I have that much. I will roll it out and measure. I took what he had :)

[QUOTE=t vago;531201]How much for 45 feet of the 6" belt material, shipped to 52405?]
$60
Send me a pm with your email we can go from there.

Looks like it weighs about 1.8 pounds a square foot for calculations.
The heavier stuff I have is quite a bit heavier, 2.5 maybe? I only need 6' of it on my bumper.

The bareback, as the seller calls it, was easy to cut from the fabric side with a razor knife.

Fabric side?

Easy to cut?

The stuff I picked up from Tractor Supply the fabric is fully embeded, no front or back. It was a devil to cut, had to use an angle grinder.

I once used a heavy fabric backed rubbery material for my hovercraft skirt. The exposed fabric (on inside face) held dirt, the dirt held moisture, the moisture promoted mold and bactrial growth. After a year or two it started to rot smell like a bad vagina.

This is nice stuff. Think of conveyor belt that has the thick rubber on only one side. I will snap a pic.

http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/z...pszjq2dyey.jpg

3 ply fabric, and rubber on only the one side. Just at or a bit under .250"

http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/z...psuhlveqdn.jpg

http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/z...psymvkahbg.jpg

Because of the single sided nature, you can score through the fabric and then fold open the rubber a bit so it does not bind.

I have a shipping issue for T Vago's conveyor belting, and he has not answered my emails and PMs. If anybody has his number please give him a call and let him know.

Sorry, got busy with other things and missed your email. Can you make one of the lengths 21 ft and the other one 24 ft?

Absolutely!
I rolled that 45' as tight as I could, and it was over 13" in diameter. Not really going to work in a 12" box.
If I shipped it either UPS or USPS ground the shipping alone was near $70 :eek:
Flat rate boxes FTW!

Looks like you got one of the packages yesterday and the other is out for delivery.
Only the USPS knows the rules;
One otherwise identical package MUST go in a dusty corner called 'purgatory', to be found later and placed on a private jet by "the cleaner" from Pulp Fiction.

Yep, just waiting now. Will probably work with this material when it gets warmer out.

Is this the right forum?

I suppose it could get moved to the DIY section. Seems that most people use conveyor belting for aerodynamic purposes.

Oh, sorry, It came out different here on my phone. I got it all mixed up

anybody else? I an going back up there in the morning.