Mike,
We already did some testing on our plotter and the big secret seems to be to not print it in a b/p template, lol.
I think your suggestions are good ones; I'll make sure to incorporate them into our procedure. I decided a while back (and this is, perhaps a result of having done reverse...
IRstuff: the sizes will vary to accommodate the large assortment of parts but on average for my use, I'd say 17-20" diameter? I'm aware of the +/-.030 tolerance limit but some of this stuff comes to sorting parts that have a 5-degree rotation in one hole in a bolt circle or a 7-degree rotation...
Berkshire,
To a degree, it helps. Our plotter will accept up to .010" thickness, although I was thinking that the mylars for longerons were thinner (I worked in buildings 1, 2 & 3 (if I have the numbers right). I worked as class 4 inspector on MD-11, Tomahawks, Cruise Missiles and ACM's, then...
IRstuff,
Yes, I did see that there are companies that offer this service (and did, in fact, see the StenTech link you'd sent me). However, I was looking to buy the mylar and make our own here as a cost-saving inspection media and wanted to make them here at our facility. We have an HP T520-36...
I worked at General Dynamics-Convair on the MD-11 and we used mylar templates for parts (like longerons) that had loft or other features that were difficult to inspect out in the shop. I believe we used .005-.007" thick mylar but recently discovered that there are ~ 140 different types of mylar...
