Etched eyes

[mdulaney]

Does anyone make etched eyes?  I'm looking for very small ones, with an ID of the eye itself around .009, .010 inch.

[mtaylor]

Daniel (Dafi here on MSW) has some on his site.  You might check with him.  http://www.dafinismus.de/plates_en.html#anker7   There might be other sources also but I've used some of his photo etch and it's excellent.

 

See "plate 7" at the above link.  His are all in mm so you'll need to do a conversion to see if the size is correct.

[amateur]

Nope, I checked: @dafi has them in .7 mm which is way more that .009 inch. ( which is around .2 mm)

I also checked some PE-manufacturers, but ringbolts that size do not exist, at least, not in the places where I checked.

 

Jan

Edited March 12, 2019 by amateur

[vossiewulf]

Custom photo etch is not insanely expensive, I've had the linked company make me things a few times. There are others.

 

 

[mdulaney]

Yeah, I've used PPD for things before; it just would have been easier to click 'add to cart' and then 'checkout', or, I was trying to be lazy

[Gregory]

Just curious..  Could you humor us with some context?

 

In the image below, is the smallest eyebolt I have in my collection at about 1mm ID..

 

The red dot is about .25mm ..

 

It is barely visible when printed and smaller than most of the thread I own.

 

 

P.S.

 

I certainly admire the effort that requires anything at this scale..   It is way off of my radar..

Edited March 12, 2019 by Gregory

[mdulaney]

They have many uses, but mostly as stanchions for hand rails and the like.  The idea is to fit .008" bronze wire.

[Canute]

Take a look at this model railroad car/parts site. There is a .010 wire next to the photoetched eyebolts for comparison:

http://www.yarmouthmodelworks.com/index.php/ModelDetailParts/Miscellaneous

Eyebolts with and without collars, about halfway down the page.