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[jimmason]

we've recently moved to a cnc laser cutter solution for sourcing the raw gek metal parts.  for the last two years we've been making these in house with a cnc plasma cutter, but our throughput has outgrown the reasonableness of the plasma cutter solution.

fortunately we can use the same files to outsource to a cnc laser cutting house, and have everything show up done, clean and nicely taped together in bunches on a pallet.  the locals find this MUCH superior and do not miss the deslagging, redrilling and general fussing with each piece off the plasma cutter by hand.   abram, nick, ben and johnny would've been here for the pictures below, but they were out celebrating at the bar, and telling war stories about the cnc plasma table (tales of both love and hate).

so hurray for desktop manufacturing and outsourcing (all the way to so cal).  it continues to amaze me how accessible cad/cam/cnc tools have made complex manufacturing processes that used to only be available at the mass scale with large capitalization.  the gek manufacturing process would not have been possible just 10 years ago.

below is the stack of flanges and vessel tubes that arrived from the cnc laser house.  as you can see we've sourced the parts in both mild steel and 304 stainless steel.  we can now provide geks in all stainless for those who want it as such.  the default gek is a mix of mild and stainless steel.  we only use the exotics where they are really needed, and try to minimize stainless work for price optimization and reduction in shop health issues around working it.  but for those who really really can't live without their stainless indulgence, we'll now indulge, for any gek reactor or add-on.

the full gallery of cnc parts is here: http://www.gekgasifi...images.php?c=36























the full gallery of cnc parts is here: http://www.gekgasifi...images.php?c=36

[admin]

5 of the CNC laser cut GEKs came out from under the welder this week.  

here's what they look like, pre and post paint.

[ginge1100]

Hi,do you have a copy of the laser cutting files for download on the site?i have the drawings but i cannot convert them to the file needed by the laser cutting company,i know they can programme the files from the drawings but it is very costly to have done,i cant see me being able to cut them myself in the shed.

Thanks,Ginge.

[ginge1100]

scrub that request ,i have now found them.

thanks again,ginge.

[Tarek]

Hi Ginge1100,

I'm curious as to where you were able to find the CNC files on this site

thanks
Tarek