Garage Woolery

If you’ve been following the Pitcrew Roadster news, you may remember that we were working with Art2Part to make some trim rings for the Garage Vary taillight kit that’s available for Miatas.  Well, there has been progress and the trim rings are now in production!

Here are some pics of the process…

Here we see a trim ring being set up on the CNC machine to have it’s curved outside radius cut.

The trim ring before trimming…

Being cut on the CNC machine…

And after the outside radius has been cut.

The trim rings are then deburred by vibrating them in a container full of walnut shells.  This removes the machining marks and prepares the pieces to be polished.  The walnut shells are soft enough to clean up the rings without causing pitting in the soft aluminium.

The resulting product after all the machining and deburring…

The trim rings go through several steps in their manufacture. despite their simple appearance, they’ve been designed specifically to fit the Garage Vary lenses perfectly.  Note the rear of the trim ring where screw perches have been machined into the rear of the ring so that it positively seats on the lens.

And how it looks when seated on the taillight lens…beautiful.

The pieces are still being machined, and have yet to be sent out to be polished and anodized.  Once those tasks are done, they will be sent out to Garage Woolery enthusiasts!