Ha, ha, ha. . . New pants please!

[mk1]

If that is the original factory mould for a BMC rosette I'm John Cooper.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GENUINE-BMC-B ... 46024df0a7

Whoever made that flimsy ash tray by taking an impression from an original has absolutely NO IDEA what an industrial quality GRP mould looks like!

The lunatic is asking £4000 as an opening bid.

You could make one just like that for about £40!

It'll be fun to see if any fool actually bids on it.

Also its amusing how it was found in a closed down factory, as the original factory that made them is still in business & makes all the GRP crap for Blackpool Illuminations. I can only imagine that the closed down factory referred to closed down because it was making very poor quality GRP moulds that wouldn't last more than a dozen impressions.

M

[814CWE]

sombody should bid on it and not pay and give him negative feedback....

[madaboutcherry]

plus £400 to ship

[minitravellerman]

The zero key on his computer must be sticking slightly there!! lol

[steve1071]

Surely an original mould would not have been fibre glass? £200 packing and private feedback!

[mk1]

I think the original mould would probably have been fibreglass, but it would have been at least 1 - 2" thick with some sort of framework, to help peel & release it.

An industrial GRP mould IS NOT an insubstantial bit of kit.

M

[guru_1071]

haha


technically thats not a 'master mould' its a 'negative copy' thats been made using the painted version

i doubt you would get more than a couple of versions from it before the thing started to break up, never mind the complete lack of a sacrificial edge for trimming back.

a proper master mould would be 1/4 - 1/2 thick, with reinforcing wooden battens glassed into the mould, with a thick rim for the trimming knife to run round - it would be so heavy that one preson would struggle to lift it.

you could make a 'negative copy' like that for about 40 quid (as mark says), i guess the other 3960 quid would cover the rent on 'ye olde garage unit' to get your back story right..........


edit - bit of a posting race between me and mark there!

[pad4]

I'll also go with this - we make loads of grp master tooling, usually with a polished gelcoat surface - never just raw grp - its to bloody thin any way

crap

Pad4

[Pandora]

and all the dams have fallen off. first pull out of it and the edge will break up.

Imagine the size of the BMC bag though!

[towners]

Question - Who owns the BMC name is it Nanjing?

[surfblue63]

Question - Who owns the BMC name is it Nanjing?

BMC may refer to:

In business and organizations

Beard Miller Company, a US public accounting firm
BioMed Central, a UK-based scientific publisher
BMC Trading AG, a Swiss bicycle products manufacturer and sponsor of professional cycling
BMC (Turkey), a Turkish vehicle manufacturer
Boston Micromachines Corporation, a manufacturer of microelectromechanical deformable mirrors
Brega Marketing Company a Libyan company for marketing petroleum and related products
Brihan Mumbai Mahanagarpalika - (Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (formerly Bombay Municipal Corporation)
British Motor Corporation, a UK vehicle company
British Motor Corporation (Australia), the Australian arm of the British Motor Corporation
British Mountaineering Council
Bulk mail center

In computing

BMC Software, a provider of enterprise management software and services
Baseboard management controller, a microcontroller on computer motherboards
Biphase mark code, a type of encoding for binary data streams
Bounded model checking, an algorithm used for verification of hardware designs

In education

Bangalore Medical College
Belfast Metropolitan College
Blue Mountain College, a college in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, USA
Bolan Medical College
Brown Mackie College
Bryn Mawr College, a college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Other uses

Barrie Molson Centre, an arena in Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Bone mineral content, a parameter in bone density testing
Bordel militaire de campagne or bordels mobiles de campagne, a mobile brothel for French soldiers
Boston Medical Center, a hospital in the United States
Brevard Music Center, a music festival in North Carolina
Bulk moulding compound, a thermosetting polymer
British Museum catalogue
Black middle class
BMC Racing Team, a professional cycling team
Chief Boatswain's Mate (abbreviated as BMC), a class of Chief Petty Officer in the US Navy
Body–mind centering, a form of body psychotherapy developed by Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen