I can't understand why you're having so much trouble finding someone
who'll do the job for a reasonable price. I use several laser,
waterjet, punch and CNC shops in the Portland area and rarely have any
trouble. Send me the file. I'll get you a quote. Where are you located?

I was going to laser 14+ instrument panels for The Noon Patrol, but the
the "group engineering" process produced a panel that was too amorphous
to bother with. So I bandsaw cut to the outline and bent them up, then
had cheap labor cut the instrument holes. I lasered some stainless
instrument templates for the two sizes of instruments to simplify the
layout. I also printed full size templates which could be glued to the
panel to locate instruments.

Of course, one panel isn't really worth laser cutting.

Bill Daniels wrote:


Bill Daniels wrote:

"JohnT." wrote in message
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Also consider having it water jetted. Like laser cut, but uses a high
pressure jet of water with abrasives in it.

John



At this point, I would consider anything. I've been talking to some of the
dumbest phone sales people I can imagine. I've e-mailed the CAD file to 20
or so firms that advertise "custom panels" and, so far, no replies except
for one local CNC shop that quoted $855 for the 9-hole 18" panel in .125"
sheet.

Bill Daniels


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