Ventilation Ducting Supports
This was a team effort project with a couple friends from MakerPlace. I produced the parts from plate in this project. I made a press brake die to flatten the 3/8" flame cut steel plates in preparation for CNC plasma cutting. I ended up sorting out some problems with the CNC plasma cutter and dialed in settings that produced a square cut edge on the plates. After popping in some holes the other two guys took over and welded them together. The process used to weld was dual-shield flux-core GMAW.
The most interesting part of this project was the application. These were designed with a 20x safety factor, which we all thought was crazy at the time. Months later we found out that these were to be used in a rocket test facility somewhere in San Diego, then the safety factor made sense.
