[Public-List] Reproduction Builder's plates

[Roy Jarnagin]

You might check out the site frontpanelexpress.com. I have used them to make panels for electronic equipment and have been pleased with the results.

Roy Jarnagin

Southern Serenity #72


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From: Public-List [mailto:public-list-bounces at lists.alberg30.org] On Behalf Of Kris Coward via Public-List
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2021 6:25 PM
To: Mike Lehman via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
Cc: Kris Coward <kris at melon.org>
Subject: Re: [Public-List] Reproduction Builder's plates


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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