Folding 1/4 steel by hand

[GAC05]

Very interesting engineering:
http://www.industrialorigami.com/solutions/thick_plate.cfm
Channel letter construction tech taken to a whole new level.

wayne k
guam usa

 

[Gene@mpls]

3/4 inch.

 

[visual800]

and then what? you brake it and then do what with it

 

[Craig Sjoquist]

So why would ya want thick steel bent & lose all the strength ..makes no sense

Also those cuts in the steel ..lazer plasma ..ok if ya got that kind of cash then again why.

Sure that was cool that it can be done but why

 

[bob]

How do you get the little slices in the steel to begin with? It would seem to me that the cost of the technology for doing that would be roughly equivalent to the equipment necessary to simply heat it and bend it.

Then what do you do about the hideous looking corners?

 

[SIGNTIME]

stupid, better off just cutting and welding at a 90 would look better also

 

[signmeup]

I wonder what problem they were trying to solve when developing this? It may be something for field deployment of flat packed steel structures that need to be assembled where very little equipment is available. The web page fails to mention the advantage or purpose of the method.

 

[round man]

who in their right mind is going to use 1/4 inch steel for channel letters?????