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Engineer student wanted...

  • 18-08-2005 12:42PM
    #1
    colm_c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭


    I need some help with cutting some aluminium plate to an exact size (from a paper model) and bending it to fit an exact shape.

    It's a very small area, it shouldn't take more than an hour, and I'd be willing to pay...


Comments

  • #2
    pauln
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 366 ✭✭pauln


    If you post up a few more details maybe we could give a bit of advice. Depending on what you're looking for it might be a fabrication shop you want, most wouldn't have access to the necessary tools outside college.

    Anyway with that said a few questions;
    How exact a size are we talking? Milling machine exact (0.001mm)? Angle grinder exact (depends on how shaky the hand is :) )? or somewhere in between?
    What thickness is the plate?
    What radius bends?

    Any other info as to the overall design that could help to visualise it would help.


  • #3
    Nukem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭Nukem


    Rough idea and info from above please.

    nukem


  • #4
    colm_c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭colm_c


    Here's the idea,

    The plate itself I've source from a Lithography (spelling?) company, the same ones that are used for printing so it's very thin and quite easy to bend.

    I've made a paper prototype as it would look if it was flat and it's about the size of a credit card or maybe a little bigger, but not the same shape.

    It's to support the side of a hinge that's already cracked, I'll be using some 2 part epoxy to attach it, but the tighter it is the better.

    I don't have the tools to do the bending, whether a sharp knife would suffice I don't know.

    Hopefully this makes sense. I'll be making a photoshop version of the plate so I can print it out and I'll post it here if anyone's interested.


  • #5
    pauln
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 366 ✭✭pauln


    The image of your idea would certainly be of great help because without seeing the final design it's hard to say the best way of going about it.
    A sketch of the final shape, scanned in even, would finish anymore questions from us.

    That type of aluminium sheeting sounds like it should be very easy to work, a vice and a sheet metal shears/stronger scissors, may even suffice.
    But again, without an idea in my head as to the actual shape of it I can't say for sure, it may be a harder job then your explanation gives it credit.


  • #6
    colm_c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭colm_c


    Got it sorted. Friend of a friend is an engineer and he's going to fabricate it for me.

    Thanks for the help anyway guys!


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