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posted: 10 Jan 2010 06:48 from: Stephen Freeman
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Hi, Can anybody tell me what the maximum thickness of wood you can cut? I'm looking for around 4mm thickness. Also please, what is the size limitation on panels? Really big project, if it comes off. |
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posted: 10 Jan 2010 11:03 from: Alan Turner
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If you look on York Modelmaking's web site here: http://www.yorkmodelmaking.com/bespoke.html there is a FAQ which gives details of materials and sizes. the max size seems to be 600 x 900. Alan |
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posted: 10 Jan 2010 16:00 from: Phil O
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Borg-Rail wrote: Hi,Hi Stephen I think that I asked Brian Lewis this question when he first annouced that he was doing laser cutting (although I now cannot find it), I think that the max was about 6mm, but don't quote me as I can't find which forum I first posed the question, but I'm pretty sure that you should have no problems with 4mm. HTH Cheers Phil |
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posted: 10 Jan 2010 16:41 from: Brian Lewis
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Yes. That is right. I have 4mm laser grade ply here. It is slow to cut, but otherwise is fine. Regards Brian Lewis Phil O wrote: Borg-Rail wrote:Hi,Hi Stephen |
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posted: 11 Jan 2010 05:49 from: Stephen Freeman
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Hi, Thanks, that's good to know. I've got a few other enquiries to make about related items before contacting the customer to see where we go from here. Brian, I'll email you with details. |
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posted: 13 Jan 2010 07:09 from: Stephen Freeman
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Hi, I'm also looking into the potential costs of having special chairs for code 205 FB rail made. Quantity 60,000 in all but not all in one go! Question is material? I presume that the number involved is insufficient for injection moulding but rather too large for whitemetal casting. Anybody any ideas please? |
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posted: 13 Jan 2010 08:00 from: Jim Guthrie
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Borg-Rail wrote: Question is material? I presume that the number involved is insufficient for injection moulding but rather too large for whitemetal casting. Anybody any ideas please?The UK S scale Association has just had new plastic chairs produced to replace our old white metal castings and I think we only required about 15000 on our first order to make the unit cost acceptable and to cover the complete development cost. The major cost was the tool itself and it will be available for further runs when the cost per chair will be considerably less. If you see Trevor Nunn with his "East Lynn" layout at an exhibition near you, have a chat with him. He masterminded the S scale project and Len Newman of Exactoscale did the actual tool making. Jim. |
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posted: 22 Jan 2010 18:58 from: Paul Boyd
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Hi Stephen Just come into this a bit late - I have a friend based in Bristol who laser cuts hardwoods for a living. I was chatting to him the other night and your question came to mind, so I asked what he could cut. I don't know what sort of size you're looking for overall, but the machine he uses can cut up to about 1300mm by 2000mm without faffing about, bigger with some faffing (don't ask me technical details) and up to about 30mm thick. His working arrangement seems a little loose, but he's said that if he can help, he will. If this is of interest, contact me directly and I can give you his details. He did say that 4mm ply seemed an odd size, and that it should really be specific laser ply. I think the glues are different or something. This machine can cut base-board sized lumps of ply. Hmmm......  |
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