Help
Over the past 6 months, I've had the great learning experience of working with a local acrylic shop in Sacramento, in order to manufacture our acrylic gel electrophoresis boxes (blueprints available at http://www.pearlbiotech.com/hardware).
I'm now looking for other acrylic machine shops shops in the Bay area that could build this: http://www.pearlbiotech.com/, given a CAD and demo of the device. I've found one other shop called Acrylic Art in Emryville, but their price estimate was suprisingly 10x what we're paying currently! We also got a quote from Tri City Plastics which is in the right ballpark, but still higher than we're comfortable with. Do you know any other local shops? (specifically, looking for 1/32" tolerances, so more than just the 1/16" of saw cuts).
On the flip side, building these by hand is just one option. Does anyone have expertise in creating molds and would be interested in a joint project? Open to options, we're looking to keep the price down so that we can make these accessible to hobbyists in the $200 price range, rather than the $2,000 these are sold for currently by other companies.
Thank you!
Tito
Founder, Pearl Biotech
