Looking for big Ni lams

[Bandersnatch]

hey-Hey!!!,
I am looking for a source of 49% Ni laminations with 1.375" center legs( scrappless ). I want to build these into an existing design that works well for me, the Peerless S265Q but gapped to reduce permeability to M6( or M4 levels ). For that matter I'd also like to source some with 1.75" center legs for building legitimate copies of the bigger S271S( though doing without seems de rigeur these days, missing details in their prints? ). So far the only source of the big stuff is super-spensive laser cut customs...
cheers,
Douglas

[astouffer]

Have you tried Tempel? www.tempel.com

[Bandersnatch]

Originally posted by astouffer
Have you tried Tempel? www.tempel.com

Yes I did, early on as a matter of fact. I contacted every likely firm I found 30-40 pages into a few Google searches. I could build with C-Cores, but that isn't authentic is it? Seems like there's no way to make real/legitamate/honest copies of the S271S anymore. I don't feel like faking it like the others.
cheers,
Douglas

[kegger]

Oh Your Such a Faker Douglas!

How yu doin?

Got a new job so I'm back to sourcing parts and finalizing parts for builds I started way back.
Should be fun!

Take care,
Paul

[Bandersnatch]

Originally posted by kegger
Oh Your Such a Faker Douglas!


Take care,
Paul

Faker, not hardly, which is why I aksed the question...

No sense building these beauties and claiming they're just like the one I took apart if it can't be done. I don't see how anybody paying $1200 a pair would know they were getting ripped off if they hadn't looked inside a real one. With originals bringing $3k7 a pair I doubt many ever will.
cheers,
Douglas

[Steven-H]

Well, if we can get our hands on the raw materials; I have a friend with a CNC plasma machine.

[Bandersnatch]

Originally posted by Steven-H
Well, if we can get our hands on the raw materials; I have a friend with a CNC plasma machine.

Sounds sweet, and a perfect reason to visit my ex backyard... Now to find an someone to do a hydrogen atmosphere aneal on them after cutting. I can probably get material to do this with; that's a different question than I've been asking so far.
cheers,
Douglas

[Steven-H]

Douglas,
Well beyond the cutting; I dunno. He works for an aircraft repair/modification company - I'll see what else he can do.

[smoking-amp]

You need to check whether the plasma cutter can cut nickel lams with a clean edge, most of these plasma deals leave little beads of melted metal along the edge. The laminations won't stack well if so. Also, plasma cutters use up expensive consumables like tips and gas.

If the plasma thing won't do it, try to get some lamination company to run a spool of the nickel sheet thru their punch press for you.

All else fails: I have seen some laminations from the far east that were re-stamped from larger used laminations. (they were punched in every which direction, with grain the wrong way) So there must be some manual/hydraulic single punch presses around for E lams.

[Steven-H]

I agree with the plasma issue - I had him cut out some chassis parts; which i needed to clean up the edges. I wonder if they have a water jet ? I should ask - that would be the best thing to use.