Cutting services

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:40 pm

Hi there,

Can anyone recommend a laser/water jet/milling etc service?

I'm thinking of getting an antweight titanium spinning disk cut.

Thanks - Simon

slurp · Post by **slurp** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:45 pm

I've used these people in a previous working life... but in all cases we bought stainless steel profiles from their stock material, we supplied a DXF to show the required profile.

http://www.lasercutting.co.uk/
http://www.maltonlaser.com/

There where 2 or 3 others but I'd have to search out my contacts list. Setup and minimum order could vary greatly.

regards,
colin

Post by **BeligerAnt** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:49 pm

Simon
Gut feel says you'd be best of searching out a small local shop and trying the personal approach, hoping they'd do it at a reasonable cost as a one-off (maybe with you supplying the material).

If you go to a big firm they will most likely be set up for production runs. They will probably only offer a prototype service to support their volume customers. The setup charges are likely to be quite high.

Alternatively, search out a firm that specialises in one-offs and prototypes, and is not set up for big production runs. I know there are people like that for PCB assembly, but unfortunately I don't know about metal cutting.

The problem with any CNC process is that all the cost is in the setup, leaving the machine to cut out 1000 or 1000000 is easy!

HTH