Chevette rack and pinion install into tube frame chassis...

[vandelay industries]

Need to cut four small slots into 1/4" thick 2024 aluminum plate.

Slots need to be approximately (but pretty close as possible) 7/32" by 1.5" and they need to go all the way through the 1/4" plate.

What's the best way, including taking it to someone, but i'm not sure who/what type of shop to ask?

 

[vandelay industries]

P.S.:

2024 Aluminum is light, but $$$$$$. i could drill through it fairly easily.

2) The slots do not need to be surgically precise, but they need to be pretty darn close to 7/32" wide at least. Not surgical like head transplant precise, by the way that guy is certifiably NUCKING FUTZ:

 

[imiceman44]

Need to cut four small slots into 1/4" thick 2024 aluminum plate.

Slots need to be approximately (but pretty close as possible) 7/32" by 1.5" and they need to go all the way through the 1/4" plate.

What's the best way, including taking it to someone, but i'm not sure who/what type of shop to ask?

I would just drill the ends and a few in between and then finish off with a file.
Always done it this way and it is easier in aluminum.
I have done it in steel

 

[tRustyK5]

Drill and file is probably the easiest considering it's just 4 slots. You could use a jigsaw for a bunch of the work too...

 

[vandelay industries]

Thanks for the help. My original plan was stupid----i ended up just bolting the rack flat to the plate and used a double u-joint from bergeson; i originally wanted to tilt the rack so as to lessen the angle of the rack's input shaft relative to the steering shaft----hence my wanting to use slots for that reason. But the double u-joint took care of that.

But that's solved. On to the next problem in the other thread.