Numbers on sheetmetal surfaces
Folks,
We have a request from one of our customers to permanently mark the mounting rails used in a data cabinet for the purpose of identifiying individual RU (rack unit) positions within the cabinet. They would like to see a stamped number in the rail for each position in both the LH and RH mounting rails. We do not have the tooling in house necessary to punch the numbers into these rails, so I started checking with our vendors to see if they had a solution to this request. Every single one of them responded they were unable to efficiently mark the surface of the rail, citing tooling costs and excessive punch time.
Are any of you familiar with a way to quickly etch/stamp/emboss numbers and letters into sheetmetal? I really don't want to drive the cost of this cabinet through the roof, so anything that would be cost effective would be welcome.
We are also considering screenprinting the rails after painting them as an option.
Thanks,
Ron