I hope this is not an inappropriate question to ask in Eng-Tips. If so, please disregard.
After searching on the web and buisness phone book for about a week and talking with various manufacturers, I have come up totally empty looking for a manufacturer who can create this without extensive man-hours. I'm looking for a manufacturer who can build a sheet metal grid or eggcrate as it's commonly referred.
Most of what I've seen out there are either made of aluminum or some type of plastic. What I need is one (actually several) made of (preferably) mild steel or SS if necessary.
It would be made of 16 or 18 gauge 1" wide strips interlocked on edge with approx. 1 1/2" square grids/cell. Overall dims would be about 31" x 58" x 1".
Our shop could build this but it would be labor intensive. Cutting the strips on a laser is the easy part. It's the manual interlocking of all the pieces that would take a lot of time. Plus the grid needs to be as flat as possible.
Anyone know of someone who has the machinery to create this fairly efficiently. Any help appreaciated.
After searching on the web and buisness phone book for about a week and talking with various manufacturers, I have come up totally empty looking for a manufacturer who can create this without extensive man-hours. I'm looking for a manufacturer who can build a sheet metal grid or eggcrate as it's commonly referred.
Most of what I've seen out there are either made of aluminum or some type of plastic. What I need is one (actually several) made of (preferably) mild steel or SS if necessary.
It would be made of 16 or 18 gauge 1" wide strips interlocked on edge with approx. 1 1/2" square grids/cell. Overall dims would be about 31" x 58" x 1".
Our shop could build this but it would be labor intensive. Cutting the strips on a laser is the easy part. It's the manual interlocking of all the pieces that would take a lot of time. Plus the grid needs to be as flat as possible.
Anyone know of someone who has the machinery to create this fairly efficiently. Any help appreaciated.
