Hey all,

Seeing as there's no topgear to watch tonight I'm sure you'll all be on here instead!

I have drawing up some brackets for my rear brakes and would like to have them laser cut - can anybody recommend somewhere that will do this for me?

Cheers

Daf

I used Doncaster laser services a while back.brilliant service and cheapest I could find.

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Originally posted by davidimurray
I used Doncaster laser services a while back.brilliant service and cheapest I could find.

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Lasermaster in cornwall. I have had a 10mm ally inlet adaptor and some 5mm mild steel plates for engine mounts made and will be organising a 10mm steel exhaust flange this week. Submit a request with dwg file on their website, they usually get back within a couple of day (prices were suprisingly cheap), call them up with a credit card and usually delivered in a week. I can't fault their service so far. Recommended.

http://www.lasermaster.co.uk/

Where abouts in the UK are you?

We get loads of material flame/plasma/laser cut for different jobs.

we use Charles day steel, and PP profiles which are both Yorkshire way out, and TiffTech in Grimsby for the odd job. Doncaster laser kept bugging me to give them a chance to quote for some work and they were very expensive compared to our usual suppliers

I've used laser-eng.com and they were great. Looks like they've been bought out though. Worth an e-mail though

Another vote for doncaster laser, was approx half the price of 5 other places I got quotes from, excellent accuracy. I've had holes cut for small tap drill sizes, diameter was right on the money so straight in with the tap.

Some good advice here guys many thanks - I'll turn my plywood bracket into a dxf later and get some quotes!

Cheers

Laserfab here in Spalding have a good reputation although I've never used them but a few on here have and have had good words to say about them..

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Originally posted by Daf
Some good advice here guys many thanks - I'll turn my plywood bracket into a dxf later and get some quotes!

Cheers

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Originally posted by Ugg10

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Originally posted by Daf
Some good advice here guys many thanks - I'll turn my plywood bracket into a dxf later and get some quotes!

Cheers

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If you have autocad and a scanner, I have found the easiest way is

1) scan the object with a 30cm ruler besides the object
2) Import the scanned image into autocad (type imageattach command into the propmpt)
3) put in a couple of construction lines at say 0, 150,300mm
4) scale the imported image so the ruler lines match the construction lines
5) start to design on top of the image - basically tracing the outline/holes etc.
6) tidy up to bring all of the holes in line / re-sizing stuff etc. if required.

I have used this a couple of times successfully for an inlet adaptor, engine mounts, gearbox mount and will be doing the same for an exhaust flange, easier to copy a gasket and go from there than start from scratch with dimensions.

Hope this helps.

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Daf, no problems, thought I'd post this as [most] people can get autocad if they have kids at college/school (obviously for their offspring to learn on and do the CAD for them).

I guess you are using something a bit more meaty than autocad. I had the pleasure of learning CAD on Computervision Medusa before migrating to CADDS5 and have also used Variametrix in the past. Not used any CAD system for about 10 years but found AutoCAD not the most intuitive drafting tool and a lot of tools that I expected to be there were line commands (like picking the tangent off a curve for adding lines ?). Seems most people have migrated to Solid Edge these days unless they are using the high end stuff like Catia.

Have fun.

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Originally posted by Ugg10
found AutoCAD not the most intuitive drafting tool and a lot of tools that I expected to be there were line commands (like picking the tangent off a curve for adding lines ?)

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