I'm not thinking of a custom manufactured plastic part. I'm thinking of
a custom silkscreen piece of plastic
etched off of a large roll of plastic of the same thickness. It's not
an injection-mold thing I'm talking about,
I'm talking about laser-etching or otherwise cutting, on a computer
controlled system, a large thick set of
these things that would be cut from a continuous sheet of plastic, as i
described, at the same thickness
of 35mm film, or so. I'll try to research it further.
-Geoff
Paul Haneberg wrote:
>The problem with any plastic part is that, unless you can find exactly what
>you want already made by somebody, the plastic parts would require the
>making of a plastic injection mold. The cost to have even the simplest mold
>made is up around $20,000. Minimum parts quantity would probably be in the
>neighborhood of 20,000 pieces. There are methods of doing very small runs
>of plastic parts (<10) but those methods have a high per part cost.
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>My company buys some plastic parts which are injection molded. The cost is
>reasonable, but we buy 1.5 million identical parts every year.
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>Paul H.
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>From: "Geoff" <overand@...>
>To: "MOTM List" <motm@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 7:15 PM
>Subject: Re: [motm] Re: My initial take on the panel discussion
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>>I still think that the solution is clear plastic strips, I shaped, with
>>the top and bottom
>>section of the 'I' being secured underneath the panel's screw mounts,
>>and with a
>>white/whatever line silkscreened on the narrow part. This sort of thing
>>∗seems∗
>>easy enough to do, assuming you could find the right company (companies?)
>>to cut the plastic and do the silkscreening. I'm imagining plastic
>>strips no thicker
>>than 35mm film is, and about 2 or 3 mm wide in the long section.
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>>-Geoff
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>>Robert van der Kamp wrote:
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>>>On Saturday 03 December 2005 22:07, Paul Haneberg wrote:
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>>>>Actually, if things work out we may be able to remedy
>>>>this.
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>>>>We may be able to offer a service where you could send us
>>>>any existing panel and we could use the laser etcher to
>>>>burn the paint off the edges, either all four or just the
>>>>sides. It really depends on just how fine an edge we
>>>>could get with the etcher burning through the Polan
>>>>finish.
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>>>I see! That could do the trick alright. Too bad though I
>>>have the 'damage' the panels. No way back then. But I'd
>>>seriously consider it yes.
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>>>- Robert
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