short run stamping

Do you furnish the die or dies or does the supplier fabricate them?

Supplier.

I'd guess about $0.50 each starting with part #2. Part #1 is going to cost about $8,000.00 (low end) It would be somewhat cheaper without the corner holes, punching 1/16" holes is a bitch. You could use glossy stock and not plate.

Where are you located?

Gunner

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Near Chicago.

If you are serious about this call me tomorrow at (949) 645-7601. If I understand the descrption correctly I think we can supply the part you need for under $1.00/ea and less then $2k tooling. We'd really like to see 3/32" or even even better 1/8" holes in the corners. Leigh at MarMachine

If you do tooling that cheap I want to be your new best friend! I have a bunch of simpler parts I need dies for. I can make the parts on my presses and I have Solidworks models of the parts. (no itty-bitty holes!)

Tom, The Visi series has an excellent prog die module. Should you want tooling built let me have a sample file and I'll give you a price.

I was thinking perhaps midsummer, depending on tooling costs. Not sure if I'd ever recoup the cost, but sometimes it's worth a throw.

Here's the component in its native habitat:

As you can see, it's the top of a carburetor. These fit many manufacturing years of Jap motorcycles, and these particular parts tend to rust very easily -- sooner than just about any other part on the bike. The factory replacement part is obscenely expensive.

So its purpose is cosmetic replacement. See how it's not exactly chromed? However, on the inner carb (with the smaller arrow), you can see that it's even less glossy. Just stamped sheet metal of some sort.

Across the cylindrical top I measure 55mm. (About 2").

You can see where the small holes go. I could actually produce a jig and drill these manually, but wouldn't that have to precede any plating (due to rust concerns)?

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Just a though but why do these have to be plated steel?

Is a corrosion resistant material such as stainless steel an option? Anodized aluminium? Polymer?

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To hell with stamping them, cast Al is the way to go!

If you punch a hole through it, that'd be just as likely to rust.

The idea is for them to resemble chrome, so bright stainless would probably do.

Later model bikes use a polymeric cover -- some type of fiber / nylon is visible in the material -- but they're matte.

Most likely trying to look like carbon fiber composite.

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========== Aluminum anodized to resemble the red/blue aeroquip metal hose fittings may also sell.

Solid platinum with diamonds and gold overlay may appeal to a certain segment of the yuppie bikers.

Unka' George [George McDuffee] ............................... On Theory: Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

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