Split: Dowels – Finding a professional model engineering service

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Excuse me for interfering, Dave

Is this the Greenands topic that you seek ?

https://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/topic/finding-a-professional-model-engineering-service/

MichaelG.

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Depending on the required accuracy and surface finish, a band saw with end stop would be quick.

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

If I were your customer I’d be looking at commercial alternatives readily stocked, such as dowels or (if a hole through it, or some other objection, doesn’t matter) a roll-pin. If necessary modifying the design a little to be able to use such items.

An alternative to a band-saw would be a metal-cutting circular-saw or cut-off grinder, followed by a quick twiddle on a linisher to blunt the cut edges. (I spent eight years cutting machine-ready metal blanks, of all types, for a living… It’s a wonder it didn’t put me off model-engineering!)

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