[MakeLV] CNC/Laser cutting offer

[Josiah Ritchie]

We have a couple 3D printers. Dave Smith has a Thing-O-Matic and another
guy offered another higher-end printer service. His email came out to the
list so it'd be in the archives. That does look like a nice little thing to
get printed and local may be the best bet for pre-Christmas.

JSR/

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Tyler Worman <tsworman at novaslp.net> wrote:

> I'll check if I can get buy the plastic from one of UM's engineering
> departments. I'm not sure where else I would source a bit block of that. If
> that doesn't work I could slice it and make it out of multiple pieces of
> acrylic on the laser cutter which you then attach.
>
> 3rd option would be to print it on one of our printers but someone with a
> Thingomatic could probably do that better than we could. Our stepper motor
> driven printer has been on the fritz.
>
>    - Tyler
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Eric ItchyD <itchyd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Here's a thing I designed which I kind of want to get made:
>> http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:14633
>>
>> Right now it's thick and chunky, if you can make it for me I would
>> probably thin it down first. If you think you can get it to me before
>> christmas maybe I'd write my wife's name on it. Any guess how much to get
>> it made out of plastic? Any design tips?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Eric
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Tyler Worman <tsworman at novaslp.net>wrote:
>>
>>> I'm headed back to PA a few times in the next 2 weeks. If anyone needs
>>> something laser cut or routed on a CNC machine, let me know. I'll run your
>>> design (to the best of my ability) on AllHandsActive's equipment and bring
>>> the pieces back with me. You pay for material, but otherwise no cost to you.
>>>
>>> Laser cutter has an ~8.5"x~11" cutting area.
>>> CNC has ~12"x~17"x~2"
>>>
>>> Our CNC can route PCBs. Fine detail work is not possible right now. If
>>> you have large traces with wide spacing, it should be okay. Our present
>>> spindle has a run-out issue and makes a mess of a fine pitch board.
>>>
>>> If you need something bigger, TechShop Detroit and i3Detroit have much
>>> larger setups. I'm not sure I'll be able to get it done in time but we can
>>> discuss.
>>>
>>>    - Tyler
>>>
>>>
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