Brake Cooling Ducts
Carbon fibre brake cooling ducts made on our own account, in batches of ten off retained tooling. Over 30 units produced to the same ply schedule.
- Project
- Brake cooling ducts
- Client
- RBM Works — own brand
- Part
- Cooling duct, carbon fibre
- Sector
- Motorcycle / own brand
- Process
- Vacuum infusion
- Scope
- Design · Tooling · Manufacture · Assembly
The brief.
Brake cooling ducts are an RBM Works product, made on our own account rather than to a client brief, which means the requirement was set by production rather than by a one-off fit. The part mounts to the fork legs, has to survive brake heat, road debris and the rest of what service throws at it, and has to come off the tool to the same specification in batches of ten rather than one at a time.
Method.
- 01Modelled in CAD against scanned fork and disc geometry, with mounting boss and bracket positions fixed at design stage.
- 02An FDM prototype was fit-checked on the bike before any tooling was made.
- 03Tooling was made here and specified against expected pull count rather than against a single run, because this is a repeat product.
- 04Parts are infused to a written ply schedule and trimmed to drawing. The mounting brackets are our own design, CNC machined from 6061 aluminium and anodised black, and they screw to the main duct body. Parts are finished in matte and in gloss.
Outcome.
Over 30 units have come off the retained tooling, to the same ply schedule every run. Repeat batches re-enter the sequence at layup, which is what holds the unit price across orders.
Send geometry. Receive price, route and date.
We run 10 to 1000 parts a year and reply within one working day. If a part falls outside our process route or our envelope, we will tell you rather than quote it anyway.