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02-09-2010 #1
Ok, so I started aquiring 'machinery for the home' about 18 months ago....
DIY CNC machine - check
Mini-lathe- check
PCB fabrication - check
Injection moulding - dammit, I've gots to gets me one of those.
Joking aside, I've now a burning ambition/need/want/blah blah to be able to make my own custom guitar pickup bobbins.
"Why Hank, why - injection moulding is for grown ups?"
Well, because nobody makes them in the size I need ...I presently make them out of acrylic on my CNC *but* even just making one bobbin, I end up with a beard like the guitarist in ZZ Top, so while my last beard was growing my mind began to percolate (never a good thing).
So what are my options...
1. Ask someone to make them for me .....pros - less hassle. cons - massive spondoolies. (for the mould)
2. Ponder how I can make them at home. So my immediate thought was,of "does such a beast exist", well this is 2010 so yes it does....
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bench-Table-To...item35a7cd377f .
but OUCH!
I think I've seen manual ones elsewhere (which clamp to the bench & where the operator is the 'compression element' lol!) ...smaller cost, but still at least one British Kidney in payment.
So I thought I'd throw this one out to the mycncuk 'massive'....what would you recommend?
My requirements are... a plastic bobbin which looks something like this...
http://ww.tinyurl.com/38jq75z (but to my own size - about 5mm long x 5mm high)
Any clever ideas about how I could make them in quantity....or how I could get them made in quantity without having to force my wife to work down Commercial road?
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