?Do engineering companies entertain DIY'ers with half brained ideas?
i.e. should I have a design for a plate of steel to be drilled & countersunk (drawings supplied) would anywhere be willing to do it? any ideas where I might start looking? TIA
Look round your local industrial estates for metal fabricators. You should find one which will do it for a fee.
I had an odd-shaped duct made out of stainless steel sheet a few years ago, as an overflow to be built into the wall of my pond. I think they charged me 30-odd quid at the time.
Where are you Vass?
I would recommend
And he will pop it in the post for you.
Baz.
Roger Mills wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net:
My local steel stockholders did just what the OP wants - they do a little fabrication on the side, I just walked one day in and asked if they could do x, y and z for me and they said yes, that'll be , Friday OK for you?
... and it was a lot less expensive than I thought it would be; AND they were happy to work to real measurements rather than French ones.
Yes. Mostly.
Many small engineering/metal fabrication companies will help, offer advice and charge a reasonable amount for it. In my experience they quite like something out of the ordinary occasionally instead of the usual run of 'wrought iron gate finials' ... ;)
I'm using them for just this. They water jet cut, etc. If you can give them a CAD file (DXF or DWG) it would make things simpler.
Guildford and south thereof... will look em up Ta!
=A0 London SW
Which leads to the question - is there a simple free CAD package that can be recommended for generating such drawings ?
Rob
=A0 =A0 London SW
Doublecad should do the job:-
Dunno - I use ProCAD on this RISCOS machine. I believe it can be bought for a PC too. Excellent prog.
I had a load of plates & supports made to my design, welded, drilled, galvanized ... and was amazed how cheap they were. Just went to local fabrication shop.
Any local steel supply place will probably do it.
If only this was available in the UK:
email with download instructions. It was a blank email with an HTML attachment. Which Firefox opens as code.
Just in case anybody is interested, the August (how do they get so far ahead of themselves?) issue of PC Pro has a full version of TurboCAD, version 15 on the cover disk. You have to register, but it is fully working.
It takes some learning, but is pretty powerful.
The paid-for edition is now up to version 18, but it was a useful upgrade for the version 7 I have been using.
Chris
Just to say got my parts (water jet cut steel plate with holes) from them. Turnround was one week from me sending the files by email to receiving the parts by post. They also can do most other machine work.
Beautifully made and a good price. So highly recommended.
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