Stainless steel fabrication

[formula400]

Right, wonder if you lot can help.

I am looking to get come stainless steel molds made to use at work.

The outside dimensions are 90mm x 30mm and 20mm in height.

I’ve emailed a few places about getting some made, but not had a reply, maybe not worth there while.

Any ideas who or where to try?
Looking for approx 50 pieces being made, depending on price.

[dern]

What are you molding?

[formula400]

I’ll be putting mousse in there, chocolate, fruit jelly, sponge. Just food

[dern]

What about this then and you can cut them in half (the dessert, not the mold)... https://www.caterkwik.co.uk/cgi-bin/tro ... prod_GM390

[formula400]

Good shout but not ideal having to cut, certain things will need an uncut end

[Newey]

Buy the item Dern linked and just get a stainless barrier welded in halfway, or have it so that the barrier is removable thus making it versatile, buy some extras and cut them up to use as the barrier all that's needed is a welder.

[Count Steer]

This lot in Egham have done stainless stuff for the food industry. Might be worth trying. I suspect a lot of the metal bashing outfits are either at the spiral staircase and construction steel end of the market or at the complicated, highly engineered prototype end. Your job looks a bit bend, bend, bend, weld. I guess it depends with a lot of these places how much work they have on.

Could you get stainless strip*, bend it round a former and just clamp it somehow when in use...a bit like a 'springform' baking tin?

https://www.buncesheetmetal.co.uk/projects.html

* I bought a sheet of brushed stainless for a cooker splashback from an outfit in Birmingham. I specified the size. They'd probably do you 50 strips to your required dimensions.

[Mr Moofo]

Isn’t stainless a PITA to work with?
I would suspect that it is such a small amount that it may not be economic to make.
What about alloy or can that not be made food grade

[Rockburner]

What about this then and you can cut them in half (the dessert, not the mold)... https://www.caterkwik.co.uk/cgi-bin/tro ... prod_GM390

Buy them, buy some stainless sheet which can be cut to 40x20 pieces,

Cut 2 slots in the ready made rectangles at half length, the slots should be only half the the height of the wall. On the 40x20 squares cut 2 10mm slots so the squares can be slotted into the rectangles.

Probably be easier than trying to get new ones made, and you can have 25 items to make 50 plates.

[formula400]

Sorry, got distracted by work

Any ways, cutting our selfs and welding was not an option.
Our current guy who does metal work and made the last batch wanted £17 a piece for them, madness. I need 50

Anyways, another one of our guys has got a man who will make them for £10.30. Just waiting on a sample

[Mr. Dazzle]

How wedded are you to the exact dims?

Can you do it with some stainless steel box section and a saw (or perhaps, more sophisticated cutting tool )

https://www.metals4u.co.uk/materials/st ... be/13182-p

£65/m for example and you need what.....about 1.5m? Excuse mental maths if it's wrong.

[formula400]

How wedded are you to the exact dims?

Can you do it with some stainless steel box section and a saw (or perhaps, more sophisticated cutting tool )

https://www.metals4u.co.uk/materials/st ... be/13182-p

£65/m for example and you need what.....about 1.5m? Excuse mental maths if it's wrong.

Very, as it’s a perfect size for the dessert, but that bar you link is a great shout for something else

[formula400]

The bar is for the chocolate mousse fyi

[Mr. Dazzle]

There are probably loads of other sizes of stainless box section, that was just the first Google hit.