Custom Machined Parts For Your 370Z

AgStacker

I finished the program for the front emblem. It's 18 megabytes of windows notepad text and 3 hours of machining time per badge . I'm not sure if I took the right approach. I want to make the badge look as good as possible, but I also want to keep it from being outrageously expensive. The prototype badges will most likely be made with the program as is, but for production the cycle time must be cut dramatically. This doesn't necessarily mean they wont look as nice, I just need to make the program more efficient.

LunaZ

Kind of explains why so much of the crap out there is injection molded plastic, no?

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scruffydog

yes, because they want to make it cheap (And by cheap, it's both price and quality) as they mass produce the product. Technically if there's enough people out there willing to buy (which I can guarantee there isn't that make this process worthwhile), this whole machine job could apply to the mold instead of the part, which will tremendously reduce the cost of tool and time.

Unless you're forging or casting something, you're most likely dealing with something injection mold-able, which in this case will be plastic of some sort, then a second operation of chroming to make it look metal when it clearly isn't.