Originally Posted by
stevieturbo
In some ways I agree. Often it's just cheaper and easier from England though. And does anywhere local offer hard anodising easily ?
Plain colour is easy. And I can get hard anodising done via a "friend" although it can take time.
It's just easier if there is a one stop shop to take care of everything who are familiar with materials required etc
Although in my travels, Im amazed at the amount of places here operating big CNC operations. Most revolve around making parts for the aircraft industry
The guy i use for alot of parts does alot of stuff for TAS motorbikes etc and is used to the 7075-T6 and said there is a company in ballymena for hard anodising so that should be fine.
When i was in the states in some machines shops it puts a completely different light onto the shops here.
CNC mills with 100 foot machine beds and every space rammed with smaller cnc machines also. Unfortunately alot of the large machining for aerospace is all going to the states. All airbus and bombardiers big tools are being made in detroit or california and flown over.