?Do engineering companies entertain DIY'ers with half brained ideas?

i.e. should I have a design for a plate of steel to be drilled & countersunk
(drawings supplied)
would anywhere be willing to do it?
any ideas where I might start looking?
TIA
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Vass

On 02/06/2011 12:33, Vass wrote:
?Do engineering companies entertain DIY'ers with half brained ideas?

i.e. should I have a design for a plate of steel to be drilled& countersunk
(drawings supplied)
would anywhere be willing to do it?
any ideas where I might start looking?
TIA

Look round your local industrial estates for metal fabricators. You
should find one which will do it for a fee.

I had an odd-shaped duct made out of stainless steel sheet a few years
ago, as an overflow to be built into the wall of my pond. I think they
charged me 30-odd quid at the time.
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"Vass" wrote in message
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?Do engineering companies entertain DIY'ers with half brained ideas?

i.e. should I have a design for a plate of steel to be drilled &
countersunk (drawings supplied)
would anywhere be willing to do it?
any ideas where I might start looking?
TIA
--
Vass


Where are you Vass?

I would recommend http://www.paneltec.co.uk/contact.htm

Ask for Tim.

And he will pop it in the post for you.

Baz.

Roger Mills wrote in
:

i.e. should I have a design for a plate of steel to be drilled&
countersunk (drawings supplied)
would anywhere be willing to do it?
any ideas where I might start looking?
TIA

Look round your local industrial estates for metal fabricators. You
should find one which will do it for a fee.

My local steel stockholders did just what the OP wants - they do a little
fabrication on the side, I just walked one day in and asked if they could
do x, y and z for me and they said yes, that'll be cost, Friday OK for
you?

.... and it was a lot less expensive than I thought it would be; AND they
were happy to work to real measurements rather than French ones.

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All the best,

Chris

Vass wrote:

?Do engineering companies entertain DIY'ers with half brained ideas?

i.e. should I have a design for a plate of steel to be drilled &
countersunk (drawings supplied) would anywhere be willing to do it?
any ideas where I might start looking?
TIA

Yes. Mostly.

Many small engineering/metal fabrication companies will help, offer
advice and charge a reasonable amount for it. In my experience they
quite like something out of the ordinary occasionally instead of the
usual run of 'wrought iron gate finials' ...


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Paul - xxx

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Vass wrote:
?Do engineering companies entertain DIY'ers with half brained ideas?

i.e. should I have a design for a plate of steel to be drilled &
countersunk (drawings supplied) would anywhere be willing to do it? any
ideas where I might start looking? TIA


www.componentengineering.co.uk

I'm using them for just this. They water jet cut, etc. If you can give
them a CAD file (DXF or DWG) it would make things simpler.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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"Vass" wrote in message
. uk...
?Do engineering companies entertain DIY'ers with half brained ideas?

i.e. should I have a design for a plate of steel to be drilled &
countersunk (drawings supplied)
would anywhere be willing to do it?
any ideas where I might start looking?
TIA
--
Vass


Where are you Vass?

I would recommend http://www.paneltec.co.uk/contact.htm

Ask for Tim.

And he will pop it in the post for you.

Baz.

Guildford and south thereof...
will look em up Ta!
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Vass

If you can give
them a CAD file (DXF or DWG) it would make things simpler.

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*If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

* * Dave Plowman * * * * * * * * London SW
* * * * * * * * * To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Which leads to the question - is there a simple free CAD package that
can be recommended for generating such drawings ?

Rob

On Jun 2, 5:02*pm, robgraham wrote:
If you can give
them a CAD file (DXF or DWG) it would make things simpler.

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*If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

* * Dave Plowman * * * * * * * * London SW
* * * * * * * * * To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Which leads to the question - is there a simple free CAD package that
can be recommended for generating such drawings ?

Rob

Doublecad should do the job:-

http://www.doublecad.com/Products/Do...0/Default.aspx

In article
,
robgraham wrote:
If you can give
them a CAD file (DXF or DWG) it would make things simpler.

--
*If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Which leads to the question - is there a simple free CAD package that
can be recommended for generating such drawings ?

Dunno - I use ProCAD on this RISCOS machine. I believe it can be bought
for a PC too. Excellent prog.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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airsmoothed wrote:
Doublecad should do the job:-

http://www.doublecad.com/Products/Do...0/Default.aspx

Site seems seriously broken.

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"Vass" wrote in message
. uk...
?Do engineering companies entertain DIY'ers with half brained ideas?

i.e. should I have a design for a plate of steel to be drilled &
countersunk (drawings supplied)
would anywhere be willing to do it?
any ideas where I might start looking?
TIA
--
Vass


I had a load of plates & supports made to my design, welded, drilled,
galvanized ... and was amazed how cheap they were.
Just went to local fabrication shop.

On 02/06/2011 19:18, Rick Hughes wrote:

"Vass" wrote in message
. uk...
?Do engineering companies entertain DIY'ers with half brained ideas?

i.e. should I have a design for a plate of steel to be drilled &
countersunk (drawings supplied)
would anywhere be willing to do it?
any ideas where I might start looking?

If only this was available in the UK: http://www.techshop.ws/index.html

In article
,
airsmoothed wrote:
On Jun 2, 5:02 pm, robgraham wrote:
If you can give
them a CAD file (DXF or DWG) it would make things simpler.

--
*If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Which leads to the question - is there a simple free CAD package that
can be recommended for generating such drawings ?

Rob

Doublecad should do the job:-

http://www.doublecad.com/Products/Do...0/Default.aspx

Tried again. They require you to enter all your details - then send you an
email with download instructions. It was a blank email with an HTML
attachment. Which Firefox opens as code.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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Tim wrote:

On 02/06/2011 19:18, Rick Hughes wrote:

"Vass" wrote in message

any ideas where I might start looking?

If only this was available in the UK: http://www.techshop.ws/index.html

Or you worked for Google

http://hackaday.com/2011/04/27/googles-secret-perk-a-private-hackerspace/

robgraham wrote:

Which leads to the question - is there a simple free CAD package that
can be recommended for generating such drawings ?

Just in case anybody is interested, the August (how do they get
so far ahead of themselves?) issue of PC Pro has a full version
of TurboCAD, version 15 on the cover disk. You have to register,
but it is fully working.

It takes some learning, but is pretty powerful.

The paid-for edition is now up to version 18, but it was a useful
upgrade for the version 7 I have been using.

Chris
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Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


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In article ,
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Vass wrote:
?Do engineering companies entertain DIY'ers with half brained ideas?

i.e. should I have a design for a plate of steel to be drilled &
countersunk (drawings supplied) would anywhere be willing to do it? any
ideas where I might start looking? TIA


www.componentengineering.co.uk

I'm using them for just this. They water jet cut, etc. If you can give
them a CAD file (DXF or DWG) it would make things simpler.

Just to say got my parts (water jet cut steel plate with holes) from them.
Turnround was one week from me sending the files by email to receiving the
parts by post. They also can do most other machine work.

Beautifully made and a good price. So highly recommended.

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