Punching out tabs in thin metal

It depends where you are. I worked in the Acorn Centre for a year or so, and if you rotate the view around, every building is a 'proper' business. Some of them are car related, but there are at least two metalworkers along here, including the 'TPSM' on the corner, which works sheet metal. At the far end on the left corner of Roebuck Road used to be Gould/Advance oscilloscopes. At the end of Fowler Road is a large glass/window business.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6071353,0.1197808,3a,90y,64.33h,83.33t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1saTP3aIrQMPumY2SaJPtVaQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu The council doesn't like the pavement parking, but if they enforce the law, the businesses relocate elsewhere. There's no proper parking nearby.

Unfortunately the metal companies here aren't too useful for electronic panels, so we have them made by a company in Basildon. Basildon consists almost entirely of industrial estates. There is plenty of manufacturing going on the the UK for other businesses, just very little domestic manufacture. I once estimated that the government takes half of what we sell things for, in one tax or another. The UK can't compete with the Far East on that basis.

Shoot them an email with a sketch, dimensions, and *tolerances*: "this hole no bigger than 3mm" or "no smaller than 3 mm" is enough to tell the CAD guy to run the laser on the inside or outside of the line, as it were. And let them bend the edges. ISTR their standard material is 1,5 mm stainless, factory finish (not brushed, not polished, just utilitarian).

Also, both "one dozen, please" and "one thousand, please, and price quote on ten thousand" is all in a day's work for them, as is international shipping.

(Let me know if it works out! My email works, just remove the invalid part.)

Thomas Prufer

I have sent an email off to Mono........

Can't figure out how to view your email address so that I can remove the redundant characters.

Also, I do like the idea of the piercing saw as a means of making a circular hole into a rectangle

Because you're using google groups

Thomas Prufer snipped-for-privacy@mnet-online.de.invalid>

There is a search engine, which maps <MID> to original message.

Google Groups may have an "original message" option in one of the menus. If it no longer does, you may not have access to the <MID> or MessageID.

The server is at:

There is even a Reply-To: field to be seen in the message, as inspiration.

The sample message on that web page, shows you what we can see out here (USENET people).

Paul