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Anybody know of a company that can cut carbon fibre plates cheaply?

Posted by Randy on July 28, 2011 at 6:43am

I've got some designs for the mounting plate for the APM for the traditional heli (Trex450) but I'm having some troubles finding a company capable (and happy to) cut the templates out of 1mm carbon fibre for me. Anybody know of such a company? It will likely be fairly low volume (40 plates to start with)

The mounting plate design can be found in the wiki here.

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Randy September 25, 2012 at 8:06pm

By the way, now I'm looking for a company to make a custom sonar cable including a little pcb to handle the power line filtering. I've reached out to goldenphoenixpcb.com and they seem capable of making it. Maybe I should try to kickstarter this so I don't need to come up with the $1000 to get all the cables made...i'd also like to add a custom heater element which again I'd need to order in bulk..

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Randy September 25, 2012 at 7:43pm

I ended up using modellord.com to create the trex mounting plates that you see in the diydrones store. It seems like a small operation but they're prices are very good, and the guy who runs it is super keen and friendly. They don't do really small runs..I normally order about 150 pairs of plates at a time.

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Jiro Hattori September 25, 2012 at 7:26pm

What about water-jet job shop in Japan? http://www.yoneyama.co.jp/

You need to prepare CFRP plate by yourself.