Could we use this material. I brought some in about a year ago but don’t know who used it. It is pretty thin but prepainted, the pink stuff is a plastic film to protect the paint. Would be good for vinyl signs, drawer dividers, small metal boxes. Should cut easily on the small shear. Random sizes
Do you know what kind of paint and plastic film it is?
Could also laser signs (and maybe powder coat them using the film as a mask). All of our hot warning signs were actually just random yellow squares that came in and we lasered.
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I can ask Monday if we have any info on the film or paint. I probably have till Tuesday or Wednesday before our model shop is going to want me to take it or they will toss it. I think the same stuff I brought in last year was near the brake and shear, I may be in tonight and was going to see if we ended up using most of it. I think is a bigger pile than last time. I noticed our shop working with it a few weeks ago so asked them to save cuttoffs too small for work.
We would need a space about 6"wide by 3ish feet deep, 3ish feet tall to store it.
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Perhaps someone could teaching a class on using the sheet brake could use some of these pieces as sample/test pieces?
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If there was a pile of metal that was free to use in the metal shop like this I certainly wouldn’t have known it. I assume most materials that are laying around belong to committees so if this is something intended for members to use we should probably put a sign on it or something.
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I got 2-3 pieces from the first batch a year ago. Definitely could find uses for more. About to start making dividers and boxes for my toolboxes.
If there is any left needing a home I will take whatever is left that otherwise is headed for the scrap bin or dumpster.
I would like some. I’ve remembered that our bending project in Industrial Processes was a recipe card box. I could find/make some templates, and have a box-bending class. Plus I’ve got a use for nifty metal boxes.
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I’m leaning towards bringing it in monday night. Give committee chairs a week to get anything they can use out of it, metal shop gets first pick. Woodshop second. if we have room to store it we can ask for a small donation when someone needs some of it, if not then we can let people take what they can use.
That is a good idea. We have the spot welder in metal shop we can spot weld them together.
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Beth it would be great for small boxes, probably need to rivet it. CDC products has small loose rivets, I have several rivet set tools
Yeah – we used rivets to hinge the top.
That protective film is unlikely to be laser safe, but if the paint is, I can imagine many uses for it.
Since I can’t find the more current thread mentioning this…
I noticed the last time I was at the space that the wind has apparently abused the white corroplast I had used to make the sign by the main door.
The previous thread made mention of using this to make new signage. I presume referring to replacing the ragged/no-longer-firmly-attached corroplast? I would be happy to volunteer to do the vinyl portion of the signage if someone (@rlisbona? @TBJK? @Team_Metal_Shop?) could cut the metal to fit.
We have a second sign frame-thingie for a sign down by the “not for prime-time-entry” door - that I just never got made, because, well, vinyl computer issues… But presumably, with NEW VINYL COMPUTER I can do the vinyl for both signs at the same time.
Pretty sure 18" x 24" is the dimensions - but wouldn’t hurt to double-check.
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Go for it!
I don’t know if the white aluminum is still in the building. It may have gotten tossed. I haven’t searched for it but its not by the shear and metal brake where I left it.
As of Wednesday morning, It was by the shear/brake on the shelf
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Cool. I didn’t look at the shelves
So… Randy… Pretty please with sugar on top? I’m gonna be at the space most of the day, so can mark cut lines on appropriate scrap piece(s) if that would help.
@jrkriehn I don’t understand the question. If you need material for a committee project go ahead and take it.