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Coolest site/tool ever! Basically, they give you a free super-simple CAD program to design - pretty much whatever you want in. Choose the material, choose the finish, and right from within the software it will quote you a price, for your chosen qty, shipped to your door.
http://www.emachineshop.com/
I played around with it last night, and for $#!& and giggles made a focus ring with M9x0.5 aixiz threads. In aluminum, 100x of them would come to $370 US shipped to my door. $3.70 per focus ring - wow! I didn't place an order since I'm moving in a few weeks, but this will be a fun tool for the summer.
You can choose pretty much any material you want, in fact there are almost 10 different kinds of aluminum and half a dozen coppers. You can even choose pure silver (for 400x the price of aluminum)
Now THIS is something we should get some GroupBuys going on! I've never really used CAD (except in shop class way back when in HS, and I'm pretty sure that was like DOS based of something), yet this was simple enough for me to use!
http://www.emachineshop.com/
I played around with it last night, and for $#!& and giggles made a focus ring with M9x0.5 aixiz threads. In aluminum, 100x of them would come to $370 US shipped to my door. $3.70 per focus ring - wow! I didn't place an order since I'm moving in a few weeks, but this will be a fun tool for the summer.
You can choose pretty much any material you want, in fact there are almost 10 different kinds of aluminum and half a dozen coppers. You can even choose pure silver (for 400x the price of aluminum)
Now THIS is something we should get some GroupBuys going on! I've never really used CAD (except in shop class way back when in HS, and I'm pretty sure that was like DOS based of something), yet this was simple enough for me to use!