Any machine/fabrication shops on/around campus/area that could help us design a product we need for our lab? Needs to be able to work/design with plastic, designed to seal and hold liquid.

If one of yall are engineers and know someone or a department that could fabricate somethign for us, please let me know. We are looking to get this asap

thanks

1/8/2014 5:17:49 PM

something like this?

1/8/2014 5:39:32 PM

do you ever need to seal and hold balls? i ask because balls tend to pop out of the mouths of buckets.

[Edited on January 8, 2014 at 5:55 PM. Reason : p]

1/8/2014 5:54:41 PM

I would check with the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department. I'm not sure if they are capable of fabricating plastic. I know they are capable of milling out from a foam material and fabrication of metals. Your point of contact would be Tim Seaboch.

[Edited on January 8, 2014 at 6:13 PM. Reason : ]

1/8/2014 6:12:15 PM

If you need plastic, the best option (and fastest) is going to be to order whatever you need from shapeways or protomold (protolabs.com and http://www.protolabs.com/firstcut)

1/8/2014 6:50:25 PM

Sorry I can't be of any help. I only work/design in sheet metal and structural shapes. But I do stainless

1/8/2014 8:26:35 PM

cast your own parts... http://www.smooth-on.com/

1/8/2014 8:36:03 PM

lol @ the bucket



we are designing a 2 chamber system for protein purification via dialysis. One side would hold our sample, the other would hold the dialysis agent (PEG, etc). They would be separated by a semi-permeable membrane. Need high surface area and a reservoir that the concentrated protein can collected, so we can have a quantifiable concentration amount and can be left overnight without completely drying up.

if anyone knows what i'm talking about, shoot me a PM. thanks

1/9/2014 12:31:09 PM