othello159
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Nov 10, 2004
- Location
- Maine, USA
I am going round and round with a problem for a large facade installation.
I need 12,000 feet of 1" X 1/2" SS u-channel, 1/8" thick material.
The channels will be drilled (a total of about 60,000 holes in a repetitive pattern) and then assembled into a 1" X 1" square tube (in 10' sections) and then I will have the joy to put 300 of these 10' assembled pieces up there.
Commercial U-channel in 316 is either unavailable or sooo expensive that it seems cheaper to have the u-channels roll formed, which isn't free either.
For a prototype we used 1" square tubing and cut it in half, that was the cheapest we came up with.
My laser guy can't slit it for us because he says, he would have to do one side and when he turns it over it is unstable and he couldn't do the second side.
What to do?? Drill all these holes (a problem all in itself!) and then bandsaw the pieces in half?? At least band sawing, unlike lasering, cuts thru the whole tube at once.
Any suggestions for a desperate guy??
Uwe
I need 12,000 feet of 1" X 1/2" SS u-channel, 1/8" thick material.
The channels will be drilled (a total of about 60,000 holes in a repetitive pattern) and then assembled into a 1" X 1" square tube (in 10' sections) and then I will have the joy to put 300 of these 10' assembled pieces up there.
Commercial U-channel in 316 is either unavailable or sooo expensive that it seems cheaper to have the u-channels roll formed, which isn't free either.
For a prototype we used 1" square tubing and cut it in half, that was the cheapest we came up with.
My laser guy can't slit it for us because he says, he would have to do one side and when he turns it over it is unstable and he couldn't do the second side.
What to do?? Drill all these holes (a problem all in itself!) and then bandsaw the pieces in half?? At least band sawing, unlike lasering, cuts thru the whole tube at once.
Any suggestions for a desperate guy??
Uwe