I'd like to make about a thousand of them to start with. I'm being optomisitc about the potential market.
I understand the logic of what your saying (10 parts loaded in a single action), I just don't know how I could actually do that.
My thought was to make a jig where the stock would fit and use something like this:
http://www.newmantools.com/bowes/bowhor.htm to clamp it down so it could be quick and easy. Right now I'm just using the generic universal clamping set-ups from Grizzly.
In large quantities it probably makes sense to run-off a thousand of step 1, then a thousand of step 2...but to keep material waste to a minimum my plan was once a final piece was cut-off I could then just slide that same stock up and cut another one. I suppose I could do that by just using 10 full length pieces of stock all set up for each step. The nice thing is that the stock is 5/16 square so I could make the jig just 10 5/16 channels.
BTW, I should mention that I don't have a vice and I'm on a shoe-string budget. I'm suffering from a slight case of "wife"...I have to show some revenue before I'm allowed to spend anymore.
That being said, any suggestions on a budget method of clamping down 5-10 pieces of metal in a single action? Or, if I had a Kurt with soft jaws (Not really sure what those are, just softer metal, right?)...how could I do it then?