Description
The Significant Advantages of Our Chemical
Etching Precision Metal Milling
Complexity made simple
Photo
etching has similarities to a printing process in that the part
designs can be immensely intricate without having an impact on the
tooling or production process. Photo etching can produce complex
parts that would be either impossible or impractical to produce by
stamping or laser cutting.
Thin metal
Extremely thin metal can be machined without
distortion; dimensional accuracy actually increases as metal
thickness decreases.
Material Properties Unaltered
Photo
etching imparts no mechanical stresses on metal substrates. Where
stamping, punching and die-cutting impart shearing deformation and
laser and water-jet cutting can leave ablative deformation,
photochemical machining simply dissolves the unneeded metal,
leaving a flat and burr-free part.
Magnetically soft materials can
be fabricated while retaining their optimum
permeability.
Clean and free of contaminants
Raw materials are thoroughly
cleaned before imaging; after etching, and after stripping and
before and after any subsequent metal finishing
processes
Parts are inherently free of
burrs.
The
Photo Chemical Milling process produces burr free components, thus
eliminating the need for costly time-consuming
de-burring.
Tight, consistent
tolerances
High accuracies; depending on
material thickness tolerances down to +/- 0.*1 mm can be
achieved
Half-etched
forming
Forming lines can be half etched into the metal
to allow components to be formed by hand.Prototype to Full
Production Photo Chemical Milling can be used to make one or a
million parts, with the identical tooling used every time. This
allows the engineer or designer to develop their concept from
prototype to full production quickly and easily. Half etched
component
Tooling and Delivery
Advantages
Tooling and set-up costs are extremely low
compared to hard tooling.
Initial quantities of newly designed parts can be
produced on short notice - sometimes within days after the design
is conceived.
Revisions to part designs are similarly
implemented quickly and economically.
Identification Marks
Company logos, part numbers or other
identifying marks can easily be etched into the surface during
manufacture at no extra cost.
