I worked in the plastic molding industry as an Industrial Engineer for many years. Guessing here, but I will bet there were at least 4 molds producing standard grilles for the production run. Since they were so large, there may have been another molding facility in CA for the Van Nuys plant.
Sometimes different color plastics run differently so there may have been a mold designed specifically for black molding compound. When molds are fresh from the tool shop they are tight and produce parts with minimal flash. Molten plastic injected under tons of pressure is abrasive and over time the molds wear down. As that happens, the parts have increasing amounts of flash. At some point the molds will be shut down and rebuilt to minimize flash.
Point being, don't look at a few grilles and conclude they all looked like that.
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07-11-2019, 01:47 PM
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