Custom Brake Disk Suppliers

[Villiams]

I have a fundamental problem with people who insist on being loyal to one manufacturing process only; that's very strange.

On another note, I'm not from Ireland but a quick 1 minute Google search shows 1) Aqua Design Ltd in Killorglin, 2) Waterjet Creations in Collon, 3) JC Enviro, 4) Waterjet Profiles in Longford, 5) Currie Engineering, 6) Graham Engineering in Lurgan, and 7) Timoney Tec.

There are many more; I just got lazy copying all their names. Have you talked to all of them? Someone must be willing to help you out.

I understand what your saying, i have considered those companies for their water jet, however own technician wants somewhere that makes brake discs currently so that additional treatment, he mentioned heat treatment (i'm not familiar with the process) can be applied by them, those companies would only be able cut the desired shape and then we would have to find somewhere else

I did consider using the our own lab equipment in our college but since we've never made a brake disc the technician doesn't want to take the chances, but thanks for the thought.

[NickFavazzo]

I understand what your saying, i have considered those companies for their water jet, however own technician wants somewhere that makes brake discs currently so that additional treatment, he mentioned heat treatment (i'm not familiar with the process) can be applied by them, those companies would only be able cut the desired shape and then we would have to find somewhere else

I did consider using the our own lab equipment in our college but since we've never made a brake disc the technician doesn't want to take the chances, but thanks for the thought.

Why do you want to use heat treatable steels on a part with such a wide and varied operating temperature range? No offence intended but is your technician an engineer for the team? If so he should be familiar with the requirements for the rotors material, as well as the effect of process (water cutting, laser, wire EDM, machining, heat treatment, grinding) on the material properties.
As an example, we have used nodular cast iron, both using Wire EDM, machining and watercutting along with stress relief + finish grinding. Watercutting can be a bit of a pain, issues being, taper on the cuts, cut surface smoothness and tolerances. We avoid lasercutting of the nodular cast due to the localised reformation of the carbon spheres into carbon shards, which, under thermal stress effectively develop into cracks.