This morning I met the owner of the company Mr. Zutter of Hydrocut in Neustadt bei Coburg. He will make it possible to cut out the sillhouette of the tick. He told me that Waterjet cutting has different advantges and disadvantages over milling. To be on the safe way we decided to only get the outer sillhouette done and go on with the rest being done by cnc milling later.
Hydrocut is specialized on cutting, grinding and milling special materials like ceramics and composite materials. I am sure they have really good experience with doing this so I am excited how it will look like within the next week. See the link…
http://www.hydrocut-ceramics.de/
I still have a first testframe out of aluminium but I don´t have the mounting plates for the motors yet. For this I will order a new plate soon to fit them into the rubber bumpers. Actually I planned the motormounts only with 1,5mm material but I fear that the motors will not stick correctly on the arms. This has to be done soon to go on with the TICK.
EDIT: today I found out that the bumpers for the motor mounting plates have different distances on the upper and lower side. Yeehaa! The result for this is that I don´t have to get a new carbon fibre material. It can handle the 1.5mm really good on one side.