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Can anyone recommend somewhere to get an ally footrest manufactured? 5 or 6mm plate, 10 inches by 11 inches with 15 rows by 16 columns of 8mm holes?
Just had a nightmare cutting a plate down by hand, squaring it off, marking and centre punching over 240 points (ears still ringing) and then the fecking drill goes off centre on the first hole. Had enough of that lark.:mad::mad::mad::mad:
Guy
Not cheap as a one off. Cant you just make the holes bigger, say 10mm and redrill the fubar? Personally, id make the holes a bit bigger and have less, at 8mm, you may have trouble with your stiletto's getting stuck, 20mm you can retrieve them easier. ;)
how about having it maybe laser cut or flowjet? 240 holes would take forever.
Thanks for the suggestion John. Thinking about having it welded up, smoothed off and paint the fecking holes on instead. Not in a happy place right now as you might have guessed.
Do you know anywhere that could quote? I'm guessing it won't be cheap....
Guy
Leave it plain, go to your local skateboard shop or look on ebay for some grip tape.
try a local machine shop or abrasive jet cutter. Have you got autocad? draw it up, send them the file and they'll cut it. sure somebody on here could draw it and email you the file if you cant do it yourself. You could try Craig? I made one from ally, hinged at the bottom so it tips back. On the back of it is an ally pouch which has the toolkit in. Handy little space.
Thanks John, I'll look around, don't have auto cad or know how to use it but I'm sure I could download a simple free version and have a play!
Guy
for what you want to do, itd take you ten or fifteen minutes to learn what you need. Try draftsight. If you fancy learning 3d stuff, try onshape.
How about one of these? http://www.obpltd.com/Essential-Parts/Footrests
Thanks Paul but looking for something more original. John won't be surprised. Tried downloading an AutoCad, it didn't work on the Mac, just gave me a new homepage for a while, I'll draw it on Excel with instructions and see if I can fire it off to anyone.....
Guy
Something like this??
Don't be shy I don't charge accountants rates:rolleyes:
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Thanks Craig - I fired off an Excel "drawing" to 3 companies late this afternoon, I'll see which, if any, come back to me.
The actual dimensions I've asked for are 16 columns by 15 rows of 17mm squares, (each with an 8mm hole in the centre) and a border 10mm wide around the 240 boxes which makes the overall dimensions 292mm*275mm. No radiused corners though.
Thanks for going to the trouble of drawing it up for me, I'm sure you have better things to be doing!
Cheers
Guy
The beauty of dxf's is that the laser cutters can import straight into the machine so there is no real programming charge.
On the foot rests I have seen the plate is not square but is shaped over the lower chassis rail to follow the profile of the inner wing, Vince's & Tryphon's are this way for example.
To draw that in Autocad only takes a few minutes, I use 5mm alloy for fuel tank flanges & have an order due to be processed imminently so if you only wanted a straight laser cut one then we could easily tag it onto an order, If you want machined grooves then you would cnc mill the lot in one hit.
PM sent Craig.
This is my solution!
Hi,
This is how I've done mine, It's made from 5mm ally, all marked out and drilled by hand, countersink is done using a "caged" countersink to keep them all the same depth, then blasted to make it non slip.
As Craig has said profiled parts are easy to do and many places will do either water jet or laser profiling from a DXF file, we use ICEE down here and have a lot of parts cut from stainless, ally and wood.
Paul
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...pssndey5qu.jpg
That looks neat Paul.
I ran into Austin at the weekend, he was asking how you were getting on with the rebuild of his old car, he can't get into your thread as he's not a full member but he'll catch up if he pops round here sometime.
I've got some requests for quote out there at the moment, hopefully one will come through with a decent price. I don;t think I can go through cutting and layout again only for it to go wrong!
Guy
Did you get sorted in the end Guy or does anyone know if someone now supplies these?
They're a bit flimsy as supplied. I've beefed one up with some angle reinforcement in the past but a bespoke plate starting with 5mm plate is better.Quote:
Originally Posted by hollytree
I ended up with a Demon Thieves one Matt but put a thicker plate over it that was drilled to resemble the original. Not perfect but it does me!