ornerynorsk you are right, I shouldn't have snapped.
Thank you for breaking this down for me. Under a lot of pressure and can't even pass the first hurdle! It's basically a team-working exercise but the guy can't even tell us left from right! I've stressed profusely that designing and manufacturing 1 jig and 1 Die from scratch is completely wasteful and unjustified but that's apparently what we have to do...
Anyway, the questions you have displayed (thank you for taking the time
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) are mostly unanswerable as we are to 'assume' many things (silly but my hands are tied). However, The questions I can answer, are below:
1. How big is the wheelbarrow tub.
Body Length = 850mm Max Body Depth = 260mm Capacity = 90Litres
2. What is the material and gauge.
Tub is made from Galvanised Steel with a 0.7mm Body Gauge
3. How deep is the draw and do the sidewalls have adequate draft.
I'm sorry I have no idea
4. Does the trimmed edge need beading/curling after drawing.
Yes, curled I believe
5. How many parts will need to be made over the life of the die, what is the daily throughput.
1000 units. Don't worry about durability or reliability, It's only intended for those 1000 units
6. What is precisely meant as "jig" for the tubular frame. Is it a bending jig, welding jig, or . . .
Ah, apologies, it would be a bending jig used for the Stove Enamelled Tubular Frame of each wheelbarrow
7. Once the above questions are taken into consideration, that leads to additional details that must be answered.
8. Will it be designed with CAD software or pen and paper.
CAD, I'm assuming
9. Do you have large, high-horsepower CNC machinery at your disposal, or is there some as-of-yet-unknown constraint in the manufacturing of the tooling.
Again, I'm assuming any sort of CNC machinery needed would be usable for construction
Because it is an exercise, none of this is 'real world' stuff. All theoretical (however illogical the whole conundrum is). What I need at the end of the day is a rough and ready guesstimate of each one that I can actually justify, instead of plucking something out of thin air!
Thank you very much in advance ornerynorsk!
As for capnhook, your sarcasm enchants me. As a wise little Rabbit once said, 'If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all.'