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Punching Holes in Sheetmetal
Steve B wrote:
My wife wants me to make some sconce lights out of sheets of sheet metal. I can get paintlock of various thicknesses, but some is rather thick for hand punching. I want to punch squares or rectangles to get a stairstep southwest Indian design type of thing, or variations on that theme. Are there any punches made in a type that has a punch and a matching backup to help cut the design? I want to do these myself with a hammer, or perhaps there is something available that is run by air or hydraulic? Something that won't cost an arm and a leg, and punch different shapes of holes, squares, diamonds, rectangles, mostly about 1" max dimension in any direction, with the holes being smaller, and they could be drilled. TIA Steve Heart surgery pending? www.cabgbypasssurgery.com Heart Surgery Survival Guide If it were me, id have a quiet word with my laser profiler. He does lots of work for me and he might just think it fun to write the DFX file for lots of different shapes and laser them out when the machine is not making money. You will need to find a laser profier near you and go and have a word. Let us know how you get on. Its amazing what our better halves think up for something better to do!! Ted Dorset UK. |
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Punching Holes in Sheetmetal
On May 7, 11:29*am, Ted Frater wrote:
Steve B wrote: My wife wants me to make some sconce lights out of sheets of sheet metal. *I can get paintlock of various thicknesses, but some is rather thick for hand punching. I want to punch squares or rectangles to get a stairstep southwest Indian design type of thing, or variations on that theme. Are there any punches made in a type that has a punch and a matching backup to help cut the design? *I want to do these myself with a hammer, or perhaps there is something available that is run by air or hydraulic? *Something that won't cost an arm and a leg, and punch different shapes of holes, squares, diamonds, rectangles, mostly about 1" max dimension in any direction, with the holes being smaller, and they could be drilled. TIA Steve Heart surgery pending? www.cabgbypasssurgery.com Heart Surgery Survival Guide * If it were me, id have a quiet word with my laser profiler. * He does lots of work for me *and he might just think it fun to write the DFX file for lots of different shapes and laser them out when the machine is not making money. You will need to find a laser profier near you and go and have a word. * Let us know how you get on. Its amazing what our better halves think up for something better to do!! * Ted Dorset UK.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Ted has a good point here. But I would check out the local water jet guy and see what deal you can make. Times are slow for many of them and if you submit a data file, they can cut it in minutes in anything you want. TMT |
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Punching Holes in Sheetmetal
Ted Frater wrote:
Steve B wrote: My wife wants me to make some sconce lights out of sheets of sheet metal. I can get paintlock of various thicknesses, but some is rather thick for hand punching. I want to punch squares or rectangles to get a stairstep southwest Indian design type of thing, or variations on that theme. Are there any punches made in a type that has a punch and a matching backup to help cut the design? I want to do these myself with a hammer, or perhaps there is something available that is run by air or hydraulic? Something that won't cost an arm and a leg, and punch different shapes of holes, squares, diamonds, rectangles, mostly about 1" max dimension in any direction, with the holes being smaller, and they could be drilled. TIA Steve Heart surgery pending? www.cabgbypasssurgery.com Heart Surgery Survival Guide If it were me, id have a quiet word with my laser profiler. He does lots of work for me and he might just think it fun to write the DFX file for lots of different shapes and laser them out when the machine is not making money. You will need to find a laser profier near you and go and have a word. Let us know how you get on. Its amazing what our better halves think up for something better to do!! Ted Dorset UK. I was wondering about suggesting that, I've not had any done recently but have had many jobs done by Freshlook Engineering in Frome and just email them a DXF file drawn with QCad and wait for the bits to be cut. I'm local so just pop in and collect the parts. |
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