类型: IC
作者:
AKmalamute
发布时间:
2014-01-03 16:11:47
更新时间: 2014-03-19 23:37:42
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=53013.0
So, after talking with someone from a local company … and
apparently he couldn’t read because I’m pretty sure I said
in an email what I wanted and he wrote back asking what I
wanted and hasn’t written since I replied to that.
Then
I did some more searching, and found
another company in my town, and got some reasonable
information. He didn’t work up a quote but said the company
typically had a MOQ of $150. He looked just at the keyswitch
plate, layer-3 (with switch tool cutouts, of course), and
knowing there were ten pieces total to make a keyboard case
(that alone is a step above the other company’s guy), he
estimated that “Five people from your forum, hmm? Yeah
that’d be pretty much there” Of course, I think he was
guestimating on 1/16” Aluminum for every layer, and
I’d like to talk about that in this thread, but…
vague
guestimations are for $30/case to add lots of aluminum to
your ergodox.
Now, that’s cut metal … no M3 screws, no
tapping so you don’t need a nut, no feet to add tenting. No
GB fee to lubricate the gears of wallethack, no shipping, no
PP fees. And currently that’s probably 1.5mm-ish all the way
through, which would need cork spacers in a few places.
I’m
still excited to say I’ve made enough headway that I’m
comfortable starting an [IC] thread. And I’d love to
have an aluminum ergodox, of course.
I told
the project manager I’d write back next week (still early
January, in case this gets necro’d in a few months
) with more information about what “we” were looking for.
One
thing I’d kinda like to see, is some extra aluminum or steel
(I mentioned SS, he kept suggesting aluminum
) plates. Just the plate, so semi-caseless designs like
“swill’s minimalist” design could be built.
But I’m at
work so I’ll just leave this here to percolate until I get
some more stuff done and can come back.