Custom CNC mud flaps?

Anyone know where I can get produced a very small series of rubber mud flaps?, (providing my own vector-file).

 

I'm intrigued.

Are you trying to find somebody who can CNC mill shapes from rubber sheeting ?

 

Yes, black rubber with my own design in white..

 

Maybe sombebody with a multiple head 3D printer could print one in TPU. Colour change from black to white TPU for a few layers of the design printed on the surface, bulk in black TPU.

Or like the EMPI mudflaps from years gone by the white EMPI logo is a separate moulding clipped to the black flap.

My 3D printer is single colour and also pretty rubbish.

 

Or you could stick white vinyl VW logos on a plain black mudflap?

 

Just make sure the mudflaps are flappy enough to push out of the way for when you do tappet screw adjustment. Some flaps are quite rigid.

Another route could be to use a milled out shape and the fill the channel with flexible paint..e.g. as used for paint on rubber dinghies.

 

Costs would be prohibitive to get a mould made , anything else would look pony

 

Rather than start a new thread, thought I'd follow on. I was going to purchase some new mudflaps but couldn't bring myself to pay the price for the VW branded ones.

Got these off eBay which were listed for a discovery 1. The quality seems very good for £15 delivered.


Got my son to do the rest. He got the VW logo set up for the 3D printer with the flexible filament.



Printing in progress. Took around 2 hours per print, with each logo being 12 cm wide.



I had to chop them down a little as my bus is lowered, possibly would be ok on a standard height bus.

I used tiger seal to attach the VW logo's. The first attempt didn't go well, they peeled straight off. On the second attempt I marked around the logo's and keyed the rubber with a wire wheel.



Repainted all the brackets so looking much better. Time will tell how white they will stay.

 

Looking good !

If they fall off, print some "stalks" on the back side of the replacement logos, drill holes in the flaps and heat stake them through.

Take care with VW Corporate trademarking- if you share the files they will probably ask you to take them down..

 

If the keying of the rubber didn't work that was the next method we was going to try. The stalks would probably be a better idea, so you could just pop them off if they need replacing. Might try that if I do some for the beetle.

The VW logo was pretty easy to find, but as you say you need to be a little careful.

 

One of the things that Hayburner were selling at the Volksworld Show (and probably online for £30 each) was printed PVC banners with eyelets printed with front covers off the magazine. One of them was actually a reproduction of a technical drawing of the VW logo design with relative dimensions and exact angles.