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Re: pic: Finished side plates w/paint
I bet that 3/16" alum panel took over 1.5 hour to make each piece and the 1/8" part on the MITS laser was a little under 1 hour. The time to pierce the material for all the small cosmetic holes is considerable. It looks like it weights a lot.
A CNC punch press would take about 3 minutes to produce the side panel. If the material was .060-.080 alum it would take about 10 minutes to laser cut a part.
A well designed sheet metal part with some folds could take a fraction of time to make and a fraction of the cost to produce.
Just some food for thought to keep costs down for teams with new sponsors.
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I would say that you are not an engineer until you've both obtained the aforementioned peice of paper AND done something with your tumescent engineers forebrain. - phrontist [more] 
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