01/03/2026
Facsimile:
To make a copy.
When a machine at Rolls Royce goes down on a Friday morning and no replacement parts are available, you have no option but to make a Facsimile.
No time for all the faff of developing a pattern, cutting it out, then finding tooling to fold it and working out the correct sequence of bends only to find out you miss calculated somewhere along the line and have to start again.
This is 3.00mm mild steel so anything you do by hand is a pain, I broke it down into three that will be welded together at the end.
Excess material left on anything being folded and trimmed off after.
As usual the Cardboard CAD plays a roll with the patterns, the punch press deals with the large hole and slot while the brake press handles the folding.