SORRY barb my answer was on the non-technical aspect of the drawings. lol.
LAG
>From: "Marco Mailand" <Newton2k1_at_mac.com>
>Reply-To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
>To: <newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net>
>Subject: Re: [NTLK] "Q Re-print" size poll
>Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 13:07:19 +0200
>
>
> > Now, WHAT is it about these drawings?
> > what can you do with it?
>Hi Barbara,
>imagine a technical drawing or a set of several drawings which describe the
>form of a complex part like e.g. the Newton case. With that information,
>more precise with the numbers on the drawings and all those arrows and
>dimensions you can walk into any mechancial workshop on this world and have
>a Newton case made out of a block of Aluminium. If the drawing is available
>in digital format and even in three-dimensional version you could with the
>right software control an automatic machine to make hundreths of beautiful
>silver glossy metal cases or lids or whatever you want and sell them. The
>set-up time of such a machine is expensive but any repeated and automated
>work as well as the material itself costs nearly nothing.
>
>As soon as I can get that part of these drawings which shows the lid and
>all
>its dimensions I'll start a small series of either clear plastic lids or
>Aluminium ones.
>
>BTW, I was speaking with an expert for vacuum chambers from the APS near
>Chicago. He had his vacuum chambers made from extruded Aluminium. This
>would
>be exactly what we need. Extruded pieces are extremely straight and
>maintain
>the glossy surface of Aluminium. They could be cut into pieces of the
>length
>of the lid and with a simple machining process in a milling machine the
>necessary cut-outs could be done to get metal replacement lids in mass
>production.
>
>
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