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scottracing
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posted 9 Years Ago
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nope
a 1500mm x 650mm x 50mm sheet of epoxy block is roughly 3-400quid and the equivalent in ali would be a few grand at least.
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Isn't Aluminium cheaper than tooling board?
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Sire thing mate pm me or email direct
still busy getting the gt off the ground but still working towards my own stuff
just got a oven 4mt-3mt-3mt !
use to be used for indycar floors so should be big enough for anything I have to do !!!
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Well you know better than I do, but usually epoxy tooling block is good for between 6 -10 parts, you can use it more times but it depends on who's breaking the parts out and if you are cutting on the tool
I've had a few small tooling block moulds made recently, and with the cost compared to an ali mould it would be cost effective on an A4 sized billet about 40-50mm thick to have an ali tool made after 20 or so parts.
We need to chat too, got a few things on in the pipeline and I need to get setup properly.
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To save me having to stress the grey matter has anyone got any figures on the breakdown where small/medium sized an fairly simple moulds cnc,d in Ali are cost affective over tooling block/carbon moulds
Rough mental arithmetic looks like 25plus parts would make the Ali more cost effective
Anyone ??????
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