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MasTequila:
How do they make ball-tops, are they injection molded? Could this place be used to make some custom joystick shafts and handles?
~Mas
kldavis:
--- Quote from: mairsil on July 22, 2004, 01:19:14 am ---Has anyone else been able to construct anything out of thick wood (i.e. 0.75" MDF) and get a quote from it?
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mairsil, you can't laser cut it because it's too think. MDF would have to be .354" or less in order to laser cut. I was able to lathe it and apply a few other machines as well, so I'm not sure why you're only able to mill it.
mairsil:
--- Quote from: kldavis on July 23, 2004, 04:50:16 pm ---mairsil, you can't laser cut it because it's too think. MDF would have to be .354" or less in order to laser cut. I was able to lathe it and apply a few other machines as well, so I'm not sure why you're only able to mill it.
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It all depends on what model laser cutter they have and what material they are willing to run through it. Our machine shop had a Trumpf that could do 0.75" hardened steel, so it is quite possible that thick MDF could be cut as well. My problem was not so much that thickness, but that I could not choose any type of wood when using a laser cut part, even though their help files said that wood was a compatible material for the laser.
I finally received a reply from the company about the problem and they stated that they would correct it in the next release. Though, they did not answer my question about what the maximum thickness they could cut was.
It is not really important, I was just playing around to see how much it would cost to replace the CP top on my SFA3 machine (converted from a Pit Fighter cab). CP's fine, but when they drilled the 6-button holes, they must have been guessing. Playable, but annoying sometimes.
Pad2Pad:
You may provide your design files and list of components for assembly to Pad2Pad for manual quoting.
Pieman2004:
Some of you might find cheaper pieces from a sheet metal fabricator. They would not be able to do joystick shafts and stuff like that. but for control panels and brackets, they can make them pretty easily out of whatever type metal you'd want.
My father owns a sheetmetal shop so when I build my cab I may do it out of metal, but then it would have a hollow metal sound to it so I may just put metal on top.
anyways I'm new here really and just saw this thread and thought I would let you all know.