PCBWay sheet metal

[ruffrecords]

I see PCBWay are now offering sheet metalwork including front panels. Anyone tried them? Are they any good?

Cheers

Ian

 

[a soBer Newt]

I tired to use them for a project at the day job but they could not cross the UTS PEM hardware we needed so we gave up.

 

[mrclunk]

I had a piece of 3mm brass milled by Pcbway for an entry panel and the quality was very poor, surface finish not to spec, wonky chamfers, laser printed text instead of engraved.
They refused to reproduce it or refund any money.
It was cheap and delivered in 15 days tho...

There's loads of companies offering online quotes on machining now. You just need a 3D file, which you can export from Front panel designer.
I didn't use them this time but had a good experience with geomiq.com, they seemed very keen to open new avenues of business and don't mind one offs.

 

[ruffrecords]

I had a piece of 3mm brass milled by Pcbway for an entry panel and the quality was very poor, surface finish not to spec, wonky chamfers, laser printed text instead of engraved.
They refused to reproduce it or refund any money.
It was cheap and delivered in 15 days tho...

There's loads of companies offering online quotes on machining now. You just need a 3D file, which you can export from Front panel designer.
I didn't use them this time but had a good experience with geomiq.com, they seemed very keen to open new avenues of business and don't mind one offs.

I tried geomiq but there on line quote system does not recognise the printing on mt front panel. It just gives me a quote for machining.

The PCBway quote came back very expensive - cheaper to go to Schaeffer!!

Cheers

ian