On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Tony Moss wrote: > While typing the above I remembered visiting our local Formica plant > where we told that ANY drawing, artwork etc. could be placed on the top > paper layer to be laminated permanently into the material. They kept an > artwork department for designing just such single sheets. > > OF COURSE! WHY NOT! A Formica sundial! What could be better?....other > than slate, stone, brass, bronze, stainless steel etc. Well, it's a > thought!
It does sound durable, at least! One wonders what the one-off cost would be, if supplied with the artwork or even pre-plotted paper. (I'm sure their paper spec is quite different from common plotter paper!) Except for "universal" designs, dial manufacturing wouldn't profit from quantity production, unfortunately... Dave Bell W121.9E37.3
