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Delrin is good mechanically and excellent for machining, and there are loads of different nylons and acetals with lubrication mixed in- check out rswww.com in the mechanical/engineering materials pages- they have pretty good details about mechanical properties of several different plastics. Mark Seaton **************************************************************** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Toby Erkson" <air_cooled_nut@pobox.com> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 4:25 PM Subject: [T3] Seat rails...anyone remember way back? > I want to say Big Al was looking into this but I'm not positive. We were > looking for material that would be a good replacement for seat rails. My > brother-in-law got me the data sheet on the plastic that would be good but, > alas, while I was cleaning up the computer room I threw it away because I > thought I wouldn't need it...heh. Well, yesterday I went to a small motor > repair shop and next door was a shop that can CNC and prototype stainless > steel, aluminum, brass and PLASTIC! So I'm thinking, hmmm, if the price is > reasonable I can have this guy make seat rails for us. > > Anyone remember what the material was that we thought would be good? Tough > plastic with inherent lubrication properties? > > > Toby Erkson -- air_cooled_nut@pobox.com > '72 VW Squareback, '95 VW Jetta, '81 Gold Wing > http://www.icbm.org/ > Portland, Oregon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > >