--=20 Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Larry Nelson Sr wrote: We can do this type of work now here at Nelson Research. I now have a mecha= nical engineer on staff and we can work hourly or fixed price on well defin= ed projects. Send me an email off list and let me know when is a good time = to contact you and we can discuss details.=20 Larry Nelson Sr. --=20 Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Carey Fisher wrote: (I hope I've tagged this post correctly - if not, I'm sure the Admins will = let me know) I've been in this business (electronic systems design and manu= facturing) a long time and I usually have employees or myself perform requi= red tasks (design, assembly, test) or outsource a task e.g. "take this sche= matic and lay out a PCB within these criteria..." that I'm too busy to do. = Now I think I need a Mechanical Engineer/Designer type to do one-off drawin= gs periodically. Most of these drawings are for aluminum panels that mount = on 19" racks. The panels are standard 19" rack panels of various heights (1= U, 2U, etc) and have one or more of a selection of components specified by = me (switches, connectors, PCB Assemblies, speakers, control boxes, brackets= , etc) installed in or on them but the specific configuration varies by pro= ject. So two panels may have the same components but arranged differently. = We currently use Visio and sort of have a "library" of parts we use over an= d over. One of! my partners does this work now but he's not a ME and he's not able to crank ou= t the drawings fast enough for a number of reasons. These drawings and the = subsequent manufacturing, finishing, assembly, integration and test are mak= ing our projects late and I need to fix this problem. My partner wears seve= ral hats, as do I, and if I can get someone else to do these drawings, it w= ill help solve this particular problem. So I guess I'm looking for a Mechan= ical Designer (aka Draftsman?) that will take small contract jobs periodica= lly and produce manufacturing drawings from sketches and components specifi= cation/models/library. How would you guys go about finding this kind of per= son? Temp staffing agencies? Craigslist? Anybody here do this kind of proje= ct work? Thanks for any and all input! Carey Fisher Chief Technical Officer= New Communications Solutions, LLC careyfisher@ncsradio.com -- http://www.p= iclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist=20 --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .