Dalek Trefoil Neck Strut Hole Marking Templates 1.0.0

In restoring the Dalek I am working on I found it a bit tricky to mark out the hole centres for drilling the holes for the neck strut trefoil dowels to be inserted in to. I have access to a Laser Cutter through my local hackspace and used it to laser cut a small marking template in to a piece of  PET plastic packaging.

The template seemed to work quite well and I hope others might find it useful. I realise not everyone has access to a laser cutter and, if you do, the software for it my require different file formats to import it.

I have included 4 files for making the templates with. 3 for laser cutting and one for 3d printing:

Laser Cutting:

• Dalek_Neck_Trefoil_Strut_Marking_Template_Lasercut.ai
• Dalek_Neck_Trefoil_Strut_Marking_Template_Lasercut.svg
• Dalek_Neck_Trefoil_Strut_Marking_Template_Lasercut.dxf

3D Printing:

• Dalek_Neck_Trefoil_Strut_Marking_Template_3d_print.stl

Materials:

• For laser cutting I recommend finding a piece of flat PET packaging that is thicker than plastic bottles tend to be and also flat (which is essential)
• For 3D printing PLA works fine.

If you are Laser Cutting then the horizontal and vertical lines need to be etched / scribed and everything else should be cut out.

An example of the Lasercut template:

An example of a 3d printed template:

The two side by side:

An example of using the template to mark a Neck Ring:

I hope forum members find these useful.