Pressed sheet metal firm anyone?...

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 5:30 pm

And this...

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 5:31 pm

I have news !!! Not good though my mate presses them himself but had the stamp made and it cost over £500 and only does the one word so good luck

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 5:35 pm

Yeah I recon I'm going to have to do it myself then. Got a 50 tonne press at work and I can get the stamp laser cut, so I think that's my best and cheapest bet.

Going to Youtube it later, but it's not much more complicated than just need a negative to press into right?

Cheers for looking into it anyway Phil

Post by **Donald** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 5:49 pm

I would've thought you'd need both

FrontBackSide2Side · Post by **FrontBackSide2Side** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:35 pm

you need 2 halves of a die. it maybe easier to make a fiberglass panel.

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 8:03 pm

FrontBackSide2Side wrote:you need 2 halves of a die. it maybe easier to make a fiberglass panel.

this^^^^^ as the panel seems to go right from one side to the other

The "S" express · Post by **honda-hardy** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 8:36 pm

can you remove the panel?
personally i would make the letters out of aluminium and lay them on the panel. then get some thin clear perspex. get a heat gun and melt the sheet to form the shape of the letters and let it form over the panel edges too. then remove the perspex so you have a smooth negative.

you then have two options.

trim the perspex and paint the inside to the colour of you choice. like a remote control car body.

or fill it with resins and do a carbon weave on the inside. being clear, as long as you got rid of the air bubbles it should look mint

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 9:03 pm

Yeah I'd certainly need a male and a female mould to emboss it, but definitely want it in sheet metal. I'm not a body expert (Except for with the ladies

), but I'm imagining a rectangular shape cut out and an identical shape with embossed letters welded in place and the welds ground down smooth.

Unless the whole panel is carbon fibre I wouldn't consider it and I don't want to blending fibre glass in either.

Post by **Donald** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 9:45 pm

You misspelled laddies

However you do it, it will be unique and thus cool

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 9:49 pm

would be easier in carbon fibre

Lude Generation

Pressed sheet metal firm anyone?...

Re: Pressed sheet metal firm anyone?...