SVA -compliant material for grilles?

[LotusNova]

Folks,

I'm looking for a material I can use for inserts in my air intakes. It needs to be SVA compliant w.r.t. radius of curvature & sharp edges (or lack thereof). The biggest piece I need is 100cm x 50cm (which I'd prefer to be in one piece). Any recommendations for a product/manufacturer?

Cheers,
Jon.

[RazMan]

The woven stainless mesh would be my choice - no sharp edges and looks good too.

[tribbles]

The rules for grills are quite odd, and as far as I can tell, as long as the holes are less than 10mm in size, they just need to have blunted edges - although quite what "blunted edges" mean, I don't know! You may get away with the aluminium mesh which has been sanded down a bit.

If the gaps are between 10 and 25mm, then the edges must have a curvature of at least 0.5mm. Between 25 and 40mm, then it's 1mm. Larger than that, it's no longer classified as a grill, so it'll be 5mm.

[grahambell]

Most 'car styling' spots seem to sell mesh in various sizes in a choice of either black plastic or woven stainless.

Can't see either failing SVA. After all, if Jaguar can have woven mesh grilles on their R models...

[Avocet]

"blunted" just seems to meen that the tester is unlikely to cut himself on it. Some wiper arms have quite sharp edges (but not so that you'd draw blood if you ran your finger along them) and they seem to get through.