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Pololu Custom Laser Cutting Service

May 10, 2007

Pololu Custom Laser Cutting Service: $2.50/minute of laser cutting time, with an estimate of 3 sec/inch for 1/8″ acrylic and 5 sec/inch for 1/8″ ABS.

$3.50 – $4.00/sqft for in-stock materials, very reasonable shipping prices.

This looks to be a good place to have simple / prototype / plate enclosures made.

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6 Responses

  1. entropicdude May 11, 2007

    Good find, thanks! I think that’ll come in useful for me!

    1. c0nsumer May 11, 2007

      I keep wanting to find projects where it’d be useful, but right now I can only think of building enclosures out of flat plates, similar to how some locks are built. And that’s a bad idea.

      1. bdu May 11, 2007

        You don’t really need to make the whole enclosure that way, right? There’s lots of enclosures that take a flat plate as the front panel…

        1. c0nsumer May 11, 2007

          Exactly. Or front and rear… Only problem is that these are plastic. Although the page does link to some rather low cost water jet cutting.

          I’m also thinking of getting a powder coater soon.

          1. bdu May 11, 2007

            I take it you saw the one they posted on the make blog yesterday? It looked nice…

          2. c0nsumer May 11, 2007

            Yep, exactly. I may get it to powder coat the rear panel of the next x0xb0x.

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