Quantity 1:
The faithful steering wheel does not attend the finished. And he does not attend high. And even more so without wood or carbon linings and anatomical cones covered with perforated skin. So consider almost all owners of tunned roms. And I will add from myself that a certified aggregate with Aerbag is useful to have an excellent steering wheel. And, consequently, the faithful steering wheel can be purchased by the tuning of the industrial steering wheel.
Various professionals practic a variety of methods for the production of inserts and anatomy on the steering wheel. I propose to use the matrix technology on the plasticine model. Superiority of plasticine in the operational description of the model form of the model. The superiority of the matrix in the potential of repeated use in the manufacture of the same steering wheel or fragments of crusts for the rolls of the second scope.
The average amount of the steering wheel does not cause tuningorera-aerbag intervention, respectively, it is recommended to function. Upgrades can be subjected to only the rim and partly the knitting needles.
01. Design of the rim. You can try to try to copy with a closer steering with a closer, but can be melted with the form yourself. The most common method to present for yourself the desired Branca is to draw close outlines on the image of the donor. But, at my eyes, not to be decent to linger on paper forever, as Ergonomic applications and installation of the steering wheel can damage your unrestrained fantasies.
02. It is unusually pleasant to extract the expensive hand wheel of a prestigious car, wanting to try closest sets to be worthy of something simpler.
03. Most of the steering wheel hung over the time of the rims are covered with a skin, one or another I am in principle. Under the skin reveals a soft rubber rim.
04. If we conceived to change the windowed line of the steering wheel, then we will cut out excessive rubber from the rim frame. But not to be worthy to get involved in the cleaning of the frame from rubber, excellently throw it in the squares where it does not interfere with the change in the form.
05. And now, in a light manner, we try to search the correct proportions and comfortable for the hand configuration of the shape on the steering wheel from plasticine. Comparably earned from plasticine Ergonomic hand cast with an initial pattern of the steering wheel. Withow distinctive cones, dents and connectors from a pattern on plasticine and a nano "pump" ease of steering hand.
06. The presumably elusive shape of the steering wheel is beginning to work in detail with one of the countries. With all this there is a permanent dispute, which is main than plasticine or putty, I resolve in the prick. This is therefore that I will not polish plasticine to a mirror gloss for removing a practically finishing matrix, and the convexity remained on the plasticine on the closer turning steering wheel. But on the plasticine we need to designate the devils for seelings of the skin, and pointed ribs of fractures of plastic form. From the finished plasticine of one half of the steering wheel, remove patterns from frequent cardboard.
07. Withstand the outlines, stripes of slots and edges of the form later templates on the plasticine side of the steering wheel. The lateral thickness of the laborer can be controlled by a caliper, comparing the suitable areas on the right and left.
08. And here is a form of simple, but do not rush to throw lines patterns. With their impressive, we need to make a formwork for molding the flanges of the particulate partner of the matrix.
How at least some closed size, the holistic steering wheel can be purchased by gluing the upper and lower crust shapes. For the production of these halves of fiberglass, we are appropriate to first make the matrix-cast with a plasticine model. The flange connector will divide the steering matrix into two separate halves, to one or another it is not difficult to make the upper and lower crusts of the components of the steering wheel.
09. The formwork of flanges is appropriate to be determined rigidly in the plane of the most extensive longitudinal separation of the steering wheel. Formwork cardboard plate I usually fasten with plasticine slices from the back side.
10. Service with fiberglass, and in particular the contact formation of fiberglass impregnated with polyester resin delivers actually endless potential for the production of large forms. The substance in a watery state easily flies the surface at least what curvature and configuration. A hardened composite can be easily applied on the recommendation. When forming draft matrices, I usually do not use gelcoats (special thick resin for the working surface) and expensive matrix resins. But, I confess that from time to time "abusing" thickener-aerosal (glass powder). My comparable thick resin is okay scores the bulges of the model and fills sharp corners on the form. But the reinforcing substance affects the quality of molding, unusually in difficult Surfaces, I drain the glass of the brand 150 or 300. I do not recommend applying the maximum cover immediately, it will impeachably lead to fiberglass deformations. Closely after an hour or a half of the resin stops rigid, but the polymerization process lasts.
11. In the meantime, the 1st forming will be polymerized, I shifted the steering wheel and remove the cardboard formwork. In order that the resin was not glued to the formwork, I pre-smeared it with a dividing composition on the base of the wax (Teflon Auto Plirol).
12. Sometimes there is no separator at hand, and it does not tolerate, I rush the surface of the contact with painting scotch. He running off with hardened polyester. So at this time I closed the flange.
13. The signing country of the model is also covered by one-dinner cover of fiberglass. Then, how the resin "got up", in other words, in the beginning of a watery moved to the jelly-like, and then a rigid state, I re-shift the steering wheel. On the external country of the model I put the cover of the thick glass of the brand 600, after reading the preceding plastic cover with sandpaper. So, alternately Applying circles build a thickness of the crust of the matrix to 2-2.5 mm (which is suitable 1 cover of the glassmate of the brand 300 and 2 shells of the grade 600).
14. Without a residue, the glued matrix is \u200b\u200bmaintained approximately in the movement of the day, wanting in the criteria of the unchanged rush in the evening the molded matrix closely follows the service.
15. Polymaya and soft in a watery state of solid fiberglass manifests a close toes. Looking at his candy surface hunt to hold on it. But invisible, sticking glass needles can hurt the hand. Because of the main queue, I am slightly cleaned by the surface of the matrix of the sandpaper. Fluffy, kneading the edge of the matrix is \u200b\u200bneeded to wear, forgetting the flange of 25-30 mm wide. At a distance of 10 mm from the edge of the model, you need to drill in the flanges mounting holes for screws. In such a matter, the matrix is \u200b\u200bready for me.
16. The blade of the knife is either a shallow metal line we divide the flanges for a one-piece outline. Then we expand the resulting gap between the flanges and disperse the semi-chains of the matrix. The narrow cover of the plasticine model in the time of the removal of the matrix is \u200b\u200bdestroyed, partly staying in the semi-form.
17. Plasticine residues are led away from the matrix. Then the inner surface can be wiped with kerosene. The outlines of the flanges I cleaned with sandpaper. On the working surface of a clean matrix, the disadvantages of flawless plastic model, one or another I correct the same sandpaper.
Even on this rough matrix, you can make a little 10 rolls. Only who will provide so much similar tuning rolls for you? But exclusive services with plasticine and fiberglass are of great demand.
Quantity of 2nd:
The rough matrix made with the use of medium polyester resin (unlike the finishing of the matrix resin) has excess shrinkage and tias, resulting in distorting the initial form. At the same time, than the younger and more difficult component, the noticeable deformation. Unusually powerful leads occur in the corners, as in our case, on a solid separation arc of semi-chains. So that in the elements of the steering wheel to the factor of their complete polymerization accumulates the visible discrepancies of one semi-chain conditionally the second in the outline. But, then she and a rough matrix, so that only orient to transfer to us to translate the plasticine idea to the fiberglass blank of the scattered form, or serve as a temporary (cheap) snap-in for research in demand for a new product.
01. Before starting the manufacture of halves of the steering wheel, I am preparing a steering wheel under pasta. Evenly cut off the excessive rubber with the rim and the spokes inserting the steering wheel in the semi-chain of the matrix. With all this, I try to forget how to a younger place between the rim and the surface of the matrix for the adhesive.
02. Split the roaring crusts. You can go to one-same sound, immediately paving two shells of the glassmate of the brand 300. General, try to form "dry", i.e. to remove an excessive resin with a pressed brush. Before gluing the working surface of the matrix is \u200b\u200bappropriate to be compensated by the separator.
03. Component width in two shells of high glassmate gets fragile, because it is necessary to remove it from the matrix with caution. I press the fiberglass edge fiberglass protruding on the sides of the sides and stretch the crust carefully.
04. The number edges of the outstanding components should be needed on the print left on the element edges of the matrix. For segments, you can use the power tools to use, and you can freeze the blade with the knob on the alloy.
05. Processed crusts I try on the steering wheel immediately lying, if it is necessary, the rubber steering wheel. For excellent adjustment of the components, the inner surface of the fiberglass should be decent to clean the rough sandpaper, removing the sticking needles of fiberglass and pensions of the resin.
06. Uniformly modifying the edges of the components and the rim, I caught the halves buddy to a friend on the steering wheel. Okay, combined and easily sitting on the steering wheel are ready for adhesive.
07. Shake halfformers can be 2 meters. Usually, the glued elements are inserted into the matrix, one or the other in the assembled state combines them and presses to the rim. But I decided to mount the steering wheel without the use of the matrix. I wanted to check the accuracy of combining the components and the quality of filling the gluing Mat-scrap in the end of the seat of the steering wheel and on the seams. As a globe, I use a consistency made of polyester resin, Aerosil (glass powder) and fiberglass. It gets the porridge similar to the glass-filled putty, only the time for the hardening of it is important mainly. With this composition, I fill the halves of the steering wheel and squeeze them on the rim. The excess porridge, extruded from the seams, eliminating and fixing the half-figures with painting scotch. Strongly deformed areas of the crust adjust with clamps.
08. Heating the element shows the intensively flowing polymerization reaction. After a half, two hours, then the start of the bonding, I remove the tape and remove the residues of the resin. After that, the surface of the steering wheel can be treated.
09. In addition to which element, traces of the separation shell remain from the matrix. That's why I clean the sandpaper one-piece fiberglass from the separator residues.
10. Usually, the tuning steering wheel is lined with a handful (carbon), a veneer of a tree and a natural skin. Solid substances with a lacquered surface are located on the upper and lower sectors of the rim, and the side with the spokes the steering fragments are tightened with the skin. So we planned first to do on our steering wheel. But then, how they held in the hands of the practically ready-made Brank, it was light, that the extreme design of the form causes an extraordinary finish. And it was decided to conclude everything on the contrary, i.e., on top and bottom of the skin, with sideways.
11. For greater convenience, under the skin, you can stick a narrow cover of porous rubber (which is greatly increasing the cost of classes). Exemplary Cousness of a bit of larger scale than we need to glit on a fiberglass rim.
12. Rubber is impenetrable tightens the rim. In the squares of the leather inserts under the palm, the stains of rubber are stuck, carved by one-identical pattern. All rubber fragments are aligned with sandpaper, and the disadvantages are closed with a rubber crumb mixed with glue. The outlines are trimmed by templates.
13. Sometimes we plan to finish the steering wheel, you need to set the correct ratio of the rim on the joints of various substances. So, for example, the thickness of the veneer with varnish (up to 2 mm) is equal to the skin thickness with glue. This is therefore that the rim of our steering is obliged to have a monotonous separation at the joints. And the tires pasted under the skin formed a 2 mm embroidery stage on the rim. That will make it possible to straighten the rim on the joints with putty. In order to not be powered by the putty edge of rubber stickers, they should be disguised with painting scotch. With this purpose, I glued along the outline of rubber, a high plasticine strip, one or another will become a slit for seeling the skin.
14. "Hairy" putty-unavomed substance in a layout of a layout. This putty is made on the base of the polyester resin and is well spliced \u200b\u200bwith our polyester fiberglass. I also know that almost all professionals build a tuning steering wheel completely out of putty. Evenly applying and having a shtaklek, roll Appropriate form attached.
15. At the very simple steering surface, I place the strips of slots for seelings of the skin. The rods on the rim are more convenient to build the blade with the blade on the alloy. The depth of the gap is appropriate to exist more than 3-4 mm, and width up to 2 mm. Duties made by the web straightened by sandpaper. The slits of inserts under the palms were outlined by plasticine stripes. Then removal of plasticine grooves are aligned with putty and sandpaper. It is extremely comfortable to lay the grooves "Bor Machine".
16. Extreme stroke construction and fitting of the airbag cover. General, correctly calculate the gaps. The litigation is that the movable cover is not suitable for the edge of the spokes. In addition, it is necessary to quit the area for skin thickness or Alcantara, one or the other will be covered with the airbag cap. For precision fitting, I make slices of leather into the gap and "pumping" the required area. To fit the gaps, all the same means are used to fit the gaps. The finished fiberglass, I donate the primer, so that the form is completely clear, because on the spacing of the surface, it is difficult to consider deficiencies. .
On this, the mock-up service ends and the product desires to the second professionals. Initially, one-Odystekhek Master sticks veneer and compensate him with varnish, then the second master will cover the skin. The final result will depend on the qualifications of the finishes, but the shape with its ergonomics, plastic, the proportions is laid by the Maketing Wizard. That is why the basic qualifications in the manufacture of unusual products constantly had a bold creation.
Greetings to all! I caught my hand in my hands, and I decided to make it anatomical so that in my hands was comfortable. And that tuning the steering wheel turned out ...
Standard Branca 
Cut the steering wheel from below. 
Next I will throw the plasticine and give a future form. 
modeling one side, turn to the second. The main thing here is to withstand the symmetry. To do this, make mocks from dense cardboard. 
Again, I throw the plasticine and model the lower part. 
As a result, this steering wheel turned out, the whole process did not photograph, because further was working with a resin, the hands were frozen. Briefly describe the process. After the steering wheel was prepared, they checked the siemetry, begin to prepare the steering wheel to apply the resin. Those. The steering wheel will be divided into two halves, the top and bottom, the separation makes a dense cardboard.
After that, we nano on the steering wheel separation wax and on top of the nano glassmate. I put three layers of the 300th mat. After everything dries, we share two halves. After that, I cut a little rubber from the steering wheel and prepare the filler for the steering wheel.
I grind the resin, add aerosil and fibers of the glassmate. I bring the resulting porridge in the resulting halves, then I insert the steering wheel there and pressed. I wait until driving, then I divide. Next processing a sandy large. After nano, the matte paint to see small irregularities.
Here is such a steering wheel, it remains to be sewn. Thank you all and good luck on the roads!
The correct steering wheel is not round. And he is not subtle. And even more so without wooden or carbon linings and anatomical cones of covered perforated leather. So consider many owners of tunned cars.
And I will add from myself that a good steering wheel is useful to have a certified design with Aerbeg. So, the correct steering wheel can be obtained by tuning the factory steering wheel.
Different specialists practice various ways to manufacture inserts and tuning anatomy on the steering wheel. I propose to use the matrix technology on a plasticine model. The advantage of plasticine in the operational description of the model form of the model. The advantage of the matrix in the possibility of reuse in the manufacture of the same steering or fragments of crusts for tuning the steering wheel of other sizes.
The middle part of the steering wheel does not require the intervention of Tuninger-Aerbeg must work properly. Upgrades can be subjected to only rim and partially needles.
01. The design of the rim can be trying to simply copy from the already existing steering wheel, but you can be installed with the form itself. The easiest way to imagine the desired Branca is to prevent your contours on the donor steering image. But, in my opinion, it is not worth lingering on paper for a long time, because the requirements of ergonomics and the design of the steering wheel can destroy your unrestrained fantasies.
02. It is especially pleasant to do tuning an expensive steering wheel of a prestigious car, although trying to try their strength on something simpler.
03. Most of the steels of modern cars are covered with skin, which I remove in the first place. The skin opens a soft rubber rim sheath.
04. If we have conceived to change the outer outline of the steering wheel, we will have to cut extra tires from the rim frame. But it is not necessary to get involved in cleaning the frame from rubber, it is better to leave it in places where it does not interfere with the change of form.
05. And now, in a free manner, we try to search for the correct proportions and convenient for the hand configuration of the tuning shape on the steering wheel from plasticine. Comparably obtained from plasticine ergonomic hand surface with original pattern of steering wheel. We carry the characteristic cones, dents and connectors from the pattern on the plasticine and again "pump" the ease of steering hand.
06. Approximately elusive shape of the tuning steering wheel start to work in detail with one of the sides. At the same time, the eternal dispute, which is more importantly plasticine or putty, I allow the putty. This means that I will not polish the plasticine to the mirror gloss for removing the almost purity matrix, and the finalness left on the level of irregularity on the finished tuning steering wheel with a putty. But on the plasticine, we need to designate the slot lines for seelings of the skin, and the fractures of the form plastic fractures. With finished plasticine of one half of the steering wheel, we remove patterns from dense cardboard.
07. We carry out the contours, lines of the slots and edges of the shape through the templates on the plasticine of the other side of the steering wheel. The lateral thickness of the ram can be controlled by a caliper, comparing the corresponding places on the right and left.
08. And here is the shape of the tuning steering wheel is simple, but do not rush to throw out contour patterns. With their help, we need to make a formwork for molding the flanges of the semi-molded matrix.
Like any closed volume, a solid steering wheel can be obtained gluing the upper and lower crusts of the form. For the manufacture of these halves of fiberglass, we must first make the matrix-lock with a plasticine model. The flange connector will divide the steering matrix into two separate halves, in which it is easy to make the upper and lower crusts of the tuning steering parts themselves.
09. The flange formwork must be installed strictly in the plane of the widest longitudinal cross section of the steering wheel. Formwork cardboard plate I usually fix pieces of plasticine on the reverse side.
10. Work with fiberglass, and in particular, the contact formation of fiberglass impregnated with polyester resin presents almost limitless possibilities for the manufacture of volumetric forms. The material in a liquid state freely envelops the surface of any curvature and configuration. And the hardened composite can be fully used for its intended purpose. When forming draft matrices, I usually do not use gelcoats (special thick resin for the working surface) and expensive matrix resins. But, I confess that sometimes "abusing" thickener - an aerosal (glass powder). My relatively thick resin is well scoring the irregularities of the model and fills the sharp corners on the form. But reinforcing material affects the quality of molding. The first pair of layers, especially on a complex surface, I drain the glass of the brand 150 or 300. I do not advise you to impose many layers at once, it will inevitably lead to fiberglass deformations. Already an hour or a half of the resin becomes solid, but the polymerization process is still continuing.
11. In the meantime, the first forming will be polymerized, I turn the steering wheel and remove the cardboard formwork. In order for the resin not to glue to the formwork, I pre-smeared it with a separating composition based on wax (Teflon Auto Plirol).
12. When there is no separator at hand, but the time does not tolerate, I ropping the surface of the contact with painting scotch. It is easily removed from the hardened polyester. So this time I closed the flange.
13. The model side of the model is also covered with one layer of fiberglass. After the resin "got up", that is, first from the liquid passed into the jelly-like, and then the solid state, I turn the steering wheel again. On the front side of the model I impose a layer of thick glass grade 600, after reading the previous plastic layer with sandpaper. Thus, alternately overlapping layers, we grow the thickness of the crust of the matrix to 2-2.5 mm (which corresponds to 1 layer of grade 300 and 2 layers of the brand 600).
14. A fully glued matrix is \u200b\u200bwithstanding for about a day, although in the conditions of constant rush in the evening a molded matrix is \u200b\u200balready in the next morning.
15. Polymaya and soft in a liquid state of fiberglass of cultivation manifests its cunning. Looking at his candy surface I want to spend on it. But invisible, sticking glass needles can hurt the hand. Therefore, first of all, I am slightly cleaned with the surface of the matrix with emery paper. Lochmata, barbed edge of the matrix should be cut, leaving a flange of 25-30 mm wide. At a distance of 10 mm from the edge of the model, it is necessary to drill mounting holes for the self-tapping screw in the flanges. In this form, the matrix is \u200b\u200bready for me to take it.
16. Blaming the knife or thin steel line separating the flanges throughout the contour. Then we expand the resulting gap between the flanges and disperse the semi-chains of the matrix. The thin layer of plasticine model during the removal of the matrix is \u200b\u200bdestroyed, partially remaining in the semi-form.
17. Plasticine residues are easily removed from the matrix. Then the inner surface can be wired kerosene. Flange contours I cleaned with sandpaper. On the working surface of the purified matrix, the defects of the flameshots of the plasticine model, which I correct the same sandpaper, are well noticeable.
Even on this draft matrix, you can make several dozen tuning steering wheel. Only who will give you so much the same rolls for tuning? But exclusive work with plasticine and fiberglass are in great demand.
Articles about tuning:"Glass steering wheel", author: Mikhail Romanov, published in the journal "Tuning cars" No. 10, 2007, http://www.tuningauto.ru/
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The steering wheel should be comfortable
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