Emma Heming and actor Bruce Willis have tied the knot in a Caribbean island ceremony. It is the second marriage for Willis, 54, and the first for Heming, 30. The couple met through friends and have been together for more than a year, the publicists said. At the wedding were Willis daughters, Rumor, 20; Scout, 17; and Tallulah Belle, 14. Their mother and Willis first wife, actress Demi Moore and her husband, actor Ashton Kutcher, also attended the ceremony.
Hi Noah & Michael, I don’t know quite how I would form something like that but it does sound like a possibility. Let us know where we can buy this stuff if you can Noah. Unless it requires a drive to Phoenix of course! 8-)
What I have found so far: “KYDEX® Sheet is typically not a cost-effective substitute for cheaper thermoplastics such as polyethylene, styrene, or cheap ABS, unless those materials are not performing satisfactorily. KYDEX® Sheet can be very competitive and effective as an alternative to painted metal, fire-retardant ABS, Noryl®, Lexan® (polycarbonate), etc.”
If you go to Grainger, (I think we still have one in E.Peoria), http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/guideBrowse.shtml and in “Type” select “thermoformable” you can get ABS in 1/16 X 12” X 48” for $16.07 and 1/8 X 12” X 48” for $32.25. Just a little more than you need.
Also as an aside, consider putting a lip on the leading edge so that if you happen to go over the handlebars you don’t have a disemboweling edge to get past.
Michael T. 23 Mar 2009, 7:57 a.m.
Yikes! Good advice but I hate to read things like “disembowel” in conjunction with anything! I will have to consider the design and function with this and other materials in mind. I was thinking of something like a dark piece of aluminum J channel used for trimming out exterior house siding —— very cheap and pliable, but may be too flexible. We shall see ——
MjL 23 Mar 2009, 9:40 a.m.
How about one of those cheap plastic folders or three ring binders. You could cut a chunk out of them and it would be flexible enough to just velcro it to the GPS, non-disemboweling and you have a choice of several colors.
Michael T. 23 Mar 2009, 12:21 p.m.
Wow, Mike, you did a lot of research pretty quick. Yes, there are cheaper solutions, but Kydex really isn’t that terribly expensive--$9 for a 12”x12” sheet, and I can’t imagine you would use the whole thing for a GPS unit. I ordered mine from a knife kit website, but you can order it from www.kydex.com I believe. I actually e-mailed somebody there at Kydex and they sent me a box of color and texture samples for free, so you could always give that a try.
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