I have a client for whom I'd designing a bit of kit that will go into a custom enclosure. Two bits of kit, actually.
They'll be thin (25mm), and about 150mm tall. One will be about 600mm long, the other will be about 1100mm long.
He would like it to have a bumper around the perimeter, similar to the bumpers on Fluke meters (and the ones you buy for cell phones).
His total lifetime production may never break 1000, so a custom-molded one- piece bit of genuine silicone whatnot will price out to (tooling cost) / (production run). Actually, 2*(tooling cost), since we'll need two. Possibly more, because he keeps getting these Really Good ideas that change the product...
Is this something that could be made up of some piece of continuous rubber off of a reel, bonded together in the middle somehow? If so, does anyone have any experience that they can point to, and suppliers?
TIA