Aluminium lighting gear tray chassis
Aluminium lighting gear tray chassis
A batch of aluminium sheet metal gear trays used to enclosure electronic equipment on a LED light fitting. The blue colour is the protective peelable plastic film which is easily removed but left on during production to keep them as clean and scratch free as possible. The components are quite complex with a series of operations needed to manufacture them. Each component has been CNC punched and then had any sharpe edges de-burred off (using vertical de-burr belts) before starting any bending operations. The bending operations were carried out in stages on our Trumpf 7036 CNC press brakes with the hank bushes being inserted and then more bends to finish off the components. We manufacture components like this all the time in batches of just a few off right up to many thousands off. We can provide prototypes for new designs and are always happy to suggest design changes to help you save money in manufacturing. If you have a sheet metal component that you wish us to look at and provide you with a quotation please just call us on 01489 577786 or send us a drawing (PDF, DXF, SAT and STEP formats) by e-mail and our engineering team will take a look for you.
Mild steel chassis plates
Mild steel chassis plates
When producing a component like this bent mild steel chassis plate we have a series of decisions to make. Which CNC tooling are we going to us to CNC punch out the flat sheet metal blank in the first place. Take for instance the large circular hole, do we have a tool the right diameter to punch it in a single hit, do we have a banana tool with the right radius to punch it out or do we have to nibble it out. If we have to nibble it out do we send the blank down the chute in the machine or do we tag it in or punch it all to scrap. These decisions are made all the time by our estimating and CNC programming team to ensure you receive the cheapest component but to a quality level that you required for your finished design. Its the same with CNC bending, deciding which tooling to use and which machine to run you components in can have an impact on the corner radius size and speed that we can produce the components.
Luckily for you all these decisions are made by us to offer you the most efficient method of manufacturing your components and you needn’t worry about these yourself.
Mild steel enclosures
Mild steel enclosures
A wall of 0.9mm thick mild steel enclosures which have been bent up on our Edwards Pearson PR6 CNC press brake. Although we can fold sheet metal components up to 2.5M long on this press brake we often fold smaller components in this material gauge of much thicker, such as 6mm thick angle brackets. These particular bent components will have many different studs and bushes inserted into them and then have the corners all tack welded together before being powder coated.