Custom Cut Nickel Strips

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For context, this is a sequel to my previous thread where I bought a triangle E-Bike battery housing on Amazon a while back. The seller didn't send the correct combination of pieces to cover the whole battery and basically told me to kick rocks when I asked about it. The pieces also ended up being nickel-plated steel instead of pure nickel.

Now I'm looking for some place to get pure nickel (Nickel 200) cut in custom shapes like ones for an E-Bike battery. The combination of Nickel 200 at a thickness of 0.20mm seems to be uncommon outside of LEVs. After some light research, it looks like Nickel 200 can be cut with a fiber laser, and not a CO2 laser like what my local makerspace has. Nickel 200 also isn't one of the available materials on the common online laser-cutting services like SendCutSend, Xometry, or JLC. Also McMaster-Carr sells the material as "shim stock" in a similar thicknesses here.

I have all the pieces modeled in a .DXF file:



If anyone has any recommendations or other ideas on how to connect the cells together, please feel free. Thanks.

 

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0.2mm thick?- just thinking aloud here But a chisel knife and light duty hammer over a cutting mat, should allow you to chase out the patterns if printed/stuck onto a sheet of nickel? a pita and a long evening, but its a one off so??

Id be tempted to test it out at least..

edit- check out diy pcb etching with laser printed patterns for zero paper image transfer onto metal..

 

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