[sdiy] Plastic case fabrication

[Chris Crosskey]

If you make the tooling yourself (or the person who is doing it comes up
with soemthing suitable and cheap) then vac-forming is pretty cheap.......If
you are in the UK give us a shout I have a friend with the tools for it...
he bought them from a metal-detector company and now sub-contracts to them
to make the search-coil housings......I used the stuff to make some little
caps about the size of a marble cut in half to use as thermally-bonded
matched transistor pair housings....put the trannies in and potted them up
 
chrisc

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Darby [mailto:jdarby at lplizard.com]
Sent: 26 March 2001 19:25
To: synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
Subject: [sdiy] Plastic case fabrication



Good afternoon, everyone (please adjust greeting to your time zone),
   How would one go about commisioning someone to fabricate a number of
plastic bowl-shaped cases, or really any shape someone would want? For
example, the case a cell phone sits in, someone designed that and another
guy is making them as we speak. Who are these people and how do I contact
them for a simple, simple half-sphere much simpler than even the simplest of
cell phone cases, and the only thing I would ask would be flanges to drill
screws into. I'm trying to avoid cutting hundreds of little plastic balls
you find at the Chuck E. Cheese Ball Crawl in half and epoxying the guts
into the bottom. Is this type of work tremendously expensive to have done? 
Thank you for the advice,
Jon Darby
   
  

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