m series door kick plate

[pridaux]

Hi I wonder can anyone help me where I can get the material that the door kick plate is made from on the M series Taimar and I think vixen as I was wanting to make some fresh ones

[phillpot]

Texal 2 sounds promising but no picture

and an 8 x 4 foot sheet would make a lot of kick plates!

I'll give them a call tomorrow, try and get a better description and see if they do "off-cuts"

[pridaux]

Cheers lets see what it looks like even if its square rather than diamonds it could be cut at an angle so it looks like diamonds

[Adrian@]

It is called checkmate...(listed in that link and about 5 minutes from me), I have not seen it for sale for a few years...I will buy some material and make some if (only if) it is OE spec.
Adrian@

Edited by Adrian@ on Wednesday 25th April 22:04

[pridaux]

Thanks Adrian should have asked you first sorry thaught i had done already will wait and see what you come up with the other sounds promising to i owe you one

[phillpot]

The way I'm reading it is Texal2 is different to Checkmate ?

But as it's close to you Adrian would be good if you could pop over and see what they can do?


Take a look at this? Looks very similar to my kick plates but hard to tell size of pattern from that photo.

[Adrian@]

Hi Mike, Checkmate is the OE pattern, owned as a patented pattern by someone and so expensive (in comparison to std sheet) and that pattern looks like a dilution of the OE sheet.
Adrian@

[Adrian@]

Checkmate...is, I suspected...obsolete, 120 x 900 size is the minimum (Vixen are this size) anyone?
Adrian
It will be old stock on a sheet metal workers shelf.

[pridaux]

Hi All
Thanks for all your help been a bit of a and spent lots of time ringing supplers and searching the net and unless someone else finds differntly then the checkmate plate is no longer made.
However after about 20 to fabricators i found one who had some off cuts that where large enough they even had the plastic protection still on.
He is being an and cutting to the right size.Also found DG had some sets made nearly identical about 10 years ago for the 3000s and had a set left so have them coming as well so i think i will be a and get them looking
Andrew