CNC machinist required

[grantwomack]

Does anyone work with CNC machines? If so, would you be willing to help me out in getting something machined from aluminium?

I'll be extra nice and even provide !!!

[JohnK]

If you don't have any luck here, Dave at Centreshot might know of somewhere. It could be worth dropping them a line.

[Field Archer]

There is also Richard at Williams.

[Tarkwin]

or Merlin Archery - the member or the outlet..

T.

[chris]

i do some machineing , not CNC but real work.
its like the archery, shoot longbow
but if i can help i will
chris

[grantwomack]

Well, I've designed a few bits of kit - a sight, V-bar, sight pin... I want to get them machined but they are in AutoCAD at the minute. I can convert them to stereolithograph files which means direct input into a CNC machine but I don't know if they could be done by hand...

[chris]

Are there no small machine shops local to you ?
You could try the yellow pages
chris

[grantwomack]

There are, but the prices they want to charge are unreasonable... and I thought someone with an interest in archery would be more likely to ensure things were done right, since they would better understand the end requirement.

[simon m]

I'm affraid any one off is gonna cost you. I had a fabrication engineer whos a friend of mine in aylesbury make me some brackets for the speedo and fairing on my first trackbike....couldda bought harris off the shelf for a couple of quid more and he was charging mates rates

[chris]

The trouble is CNC is for large quantities not one off’s .
It’s the setting up that takes the time and time is money
chris