From: William Pociengel (hseldon_at_my.wgu.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 01 2005 - 20:47:09 PST
Jon Scordia wrote:
> Hi List. This prototype is a bit rough round the edges, but I think
> it's closer to what I'm aiming at. Please see...
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/jscordia/aluSTAND/PhotoAlbum45.html
>
> The text explains the changes.
>
> Thereafter it's quite easy to make but the tolerances required to line
> up the components accurately are beyond my current DIY tools. I have a
> plan in hand for that, but I'm still not sure whether this thing is
> mass-produceable!!
well seeing as how I now work at a machine shop, and we have outside
vendors who have machine shops. and it looks pretty easy, then it might
be possible to have one of our engineers or outside shops take one apart
and make an autocad drawing. from there it would be easy to get said
shop to fab the parts.
ok now the down side, without an autocad drawing I can't get a valid
bid. without a valid bid I can't tell you what it would cost.
so either one of 2 things would need to happen:
1) you draw up an autocad drawing
2) you draw up a good visio drawing
c) you send to me (or someone else if you wish) one of your prototypes
in autocad a real drawing will just have to have good measurments, not
guaranteed in visio.
a machine shop could setup and run this stuff pretty easy and even
provide some ideas for materials.
anyway, it's a thought / offer. I don't think a bid would cost much if
anything, especially if we had cad drawings. my cad skills are, well,
less than stellar ;-) any good tooling engineer will want to hold the
items in their hand to examine and search for flaws in the design.
william
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