[Public-List] Reproduction Builder's plates

[Kris Coward]

Do you still have the image of the plate that was sent for the previous
run of them? Possibly also dimensions?

In a conversation off-list with a few people who'd expressed interest, I
brought up having found some good indications that hitting anodized
aluminum with a CO2 laser (of the sort you can find at most
hackerspaces/makerspaces, and that a decent assortment of hobbyists also
have at home) burns off the dye in the anodization, leaving bright (but
I imagine still anodized) metal.

Basically this means that if you've got a suitably sized and coloured
piece of anodized sheet/plate, and an image file, there's a decent
change that you can find a hackerspace, makerspace, or hobbyist with a
laser and a willingness to help you out to make your own plate with no
minimum order size.

I don't know where to find such a laser around the Chesapeake, but for
Albergers close to Toronto, I know that Hacklab and Site 3 each have
such a laser, can't quite remember if the Toronto Public Library has one
(or if they've just got 3d printers), strongly suspect that the Toronto
Tool Library has one, and I've got some friends around High Park who
have one at home (and know of 2 more home lasers belonging to friends
who live up in Deep River). I imagine that they're not that much scarcer
around Maryland.

Cheers,
Kris

On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 03:18:50PM -0500, Mike Lehman via Public-List wrote:
> Jim and I did this project as a team, I'll check the inventory but I am
> pretty sure it is depleted. I remember ordering them and may have a record
> from where in Baltimore. What I distinctly remember was the minimum order
> was 1,000 plates.
> 
> Mike Lehman
> ~~~_/)_/)~~_/)~~~
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2021, 3:13 PM Michael via Public-List <
> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
> > Jim Menucci was the ramrod for that offering; he is gone now. I don't
> > know where his source was.
> >
> > Michael Grosh
> > #220
> >
> > ------ Original Message ------
> > From: "Gordon Laco via Public-List" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
> > To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all"
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> > Cc: "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net>
> > Sent: 2/1/2021 2:44:22 PM
> > Subject: [Public-List] Reproduction Builder's plates
> >
> > >Hello friends,
> > >
> > >Forgive me if this has been covered already… but are there still
> > reproduction builder’s plates for our boats available from the Association?
> > >
> > >I’d be interested in one myself… ours has long since had the blue
> > printing worn off…
> > >
> > >
> > >Gordon Laco
> > >426 Surprise
> > >www.gordonlaco.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
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