Emmo wrote:
I am marking a bunch of trees with some aluminum "dog tags" with three or
four lines of words (all the same) and a unique number.
I have been stamping these out, words and numbers with a Harbor Freight 1/4"
stamp set and a ball pein hammer. Now the problem is how to mass produce
200 of these blanks -- I can't do the verbiage all letter by letter,
(although I will still be stamping in the unique number).
How can I make a stamp with whole words or sentences? Can I use a 2-ton
arbor press and some kind of dye? I would need a plate about the size of a
business card, or maybe a little bigger. Where would I even go to find
something like this? How are dog tags done?
Can I etch or anodize the info onto surface of these tags instead of
stamping? Even engraving would be faster than the whack, whack, whack of
my hammer...
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"All it took was all I had..."
http://www.mscdirect.com/PDF.process?pdf=2610&Keyword=Y
This is a pdf on MSC's catalog - it is PRYOR - one does a line of type - lock it in a handle
and either hammer or Press.
Dog tags are engraved with a high speed semi-pointed D shaped carbide or HSS cutter - almost CNC like.
Mechanical cnc if you will.
Think of the tokens one punches at parks or such - These are made in Sheffield England.
Martin
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Martin Eastburn, Barbara Eastburn
@ home at Lion's Lair with our computer
NRA LOH, NRA Life
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
Don't know about now, but back in the old days G, the dogtags were
made on a typewriter type of machine where the tag was placed in a
holder, and as each letter was "typed" the character was stamped into
the metal (I ran one of these for a few days in boot camp only because
I was able to type).
Ken.