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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</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Jon Darby
[mailto:jdarby@lplizard.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 26 March 2001 19:25<BR><B>To:</B>
synth-diy@node12b53.a2000.nl<BR><B>Subject:</B> [sdiy] Plastic case
fabrication<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Good afternoon, everyone (please adjust
greeting to your time zone),</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> 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? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT><FONT size=2>Thank you for the
advice,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Jon Darby</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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