Integrated WCD "Warp drive" chassis

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by mman1506

I would but sheet metal is really expensive, I'm not sure if its just Canada but two 6061 6x37 .125 sheets would be double what the 3x3x37 .120 box tube costs. Plasma cut metal also takes a long time to finish and isn't as precise. Does anyone know how 610 hold's there sheetmetal in place on there router? I cant think of a way to do it without using wood as a relief material but it looks like there using something else in there pictures.

The team I was on had a CNC router. We used a big piece of plywood and wood screws to hold the metal down.

At Metal Supermarkets a 6x37 sheet of 6061 0.125 would be $30, and a 6x37 sheet of 5052 would be $24. That is pretty cheap to me, considering you only need 4 sheets. Why 37", and what is your source?

[mman1506]

Originally Posted by Gregor

The team I was on had a CNC router. We used a big piece of plywood and wood screws to hold the metal down.

At Metal Supermarkets a 6x37 sheet of 6061 0.125 would be $30, and a 6x37 sheet of 5052 would be $24. That is pretty cheap to me, considering you only need 4 sheets. Why 37", and what is your source?

The more I think about it the more I want to build it that way.. Anyway It still doubles the metal cost. I'll see if I can get the funding, my teachers are picky. I'm building it off of 2011 size specs