On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:08:25 GMT, "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...

We have an old Graphotype Addressograph machine stored in the warehouse which
does exactly that. Up tp 4 lines of type pressed into a steel plate, basically a
dogtag.
If you are anywhere near Fort Worth TX, contact me

Rex Burkheimer
rex at txol dot net
Texas Parts Guy