On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:50:28 -0800, "Lane" lane (no spam) at
copperaccents dot com wrote:

I work for a small shop that makes aircraft parts. What they are using for
part marking is a little hand held rubber stamp thing that holds a couple of
lines of individual letters and numbers. It is time consuming and tedious,
you have to use tweezers in set each character. There has got to be
something better.

We do quantities from 1 to a few dozen, but sometimes as many as 50, which
is rare. I found the hand stenciler that McMaster has on page 1752. Is this
a good set to use? Anyone have any other recommendations?

One of our customers has a slightly better way to do it - they have
an old-style miniature letterset printing press, sized for postcards
or business cards. You get a tray of printers' type and set your
text, justify it in the type frame and put it the press. Or if you
know a print shop in the area with a Linotype you could have them
hot-set all your part numbers on slugs for you.

Rather than printing on paper, the little press has a rubber blanket
on the printing platen, along with an alignment ledge for the part.
You cycle the press to ink the type, the platen closes and transfers
the ink to the blanket. Then you line up and press the part to the
blanket to transfer the ink and mark it.

-- Bruce --
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Bruce L. Bergman, Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) CA - Desktop
Electrician for Westend Electric - CA726700
5737 Kanan Rd. #359, Agoura CA 91301 (818) 889-9545
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