Originally Posted by Pat2000 Zathras, you do have a complex part there that you'd like extruded (I'm certainly no expert mind) you have five seperate pockets in there that means five sections in the die that have to be supported in the right place for the ally to flow around, my guess is thats $$$ . can you not simplify the design? thats my guess - and the diemakers/extruders will confirm for you? |
OK the pockets are probably an issue. Maybe I should get more basic as bellow. But the walls are too thick (10mm) for a die?? I thought there was a max wall thickness hence the pockets.
In the end I just want to avoid boring a large piece of Alu.
McGyver:
As I said above, I was thinking it would cost big mula, maybe $10k if a coffee mug die costs $60k so
comparativley speaking $2500 is pretty reasonable (and that's not knowing how much Alu you can push through it).
Nope, not for a model as such. It's part of a telescope mount that I want to make.