Wanted: Aluminium sheet

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Looking for a sheet of this stuff around 2mm thick, 2m x 1m or there about.
Off cuts, rough cuts anything.

I've phoned around a couple of places looking a sheet but nowhere seems to do the above size.
any idea's on where to get it either

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I may be after a wee bit too of you want me to chip in. Roughly the same size
 

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I get all my metal sheets, rods and so on from Scott and Stinson Engineering in Coleraine. They stock some rather large sheets of stainless and alloy so I'd think they could sort you out.

http://www.rectoryforge.co.uk/
 

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Probably best to just call in to some fabrication places.

Or Aalco will sell full 2.4x1.2m sheets of whatever you want. Alloy isnt overly expensive.
 

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We have some alu in stock. 0.7mm, 2 & 3mm. Plenty of offcuts- pretty sure there's some 2mm offcuts. Is it actually 2x1 you need?

I'll check in the morning if you're not sorted by then
 

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No not really, max height I think would be 200mm and lenght would be 600mm a couple of sections like that or round about there....?
 
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I'll find out what size I'd need after johnm is sorted, enough to make a radiator shroud and front under tray
 

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The place Mckinnon in dundonald is a laser cutter and he will have off cuts or cut you whatever you want.

From a plate 10cm square to a full sheet.

We use him all the time for work, actually picking up a big load of stuff this morning from him.

For reference, they can laser up to 15mm steel, 12mm stainless and 6mm aluminium plate within 0.2mm tolerance.

They also do folding. Ill fire some pictures up later when I go round to see the bits
 

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As above, they're (aalco) probably about the biggest supplier there is in the UK so plenty of choice
 

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The place Mckinnon in dundonald is a laser cutter and he will have off cuts or cut you whatever you want.

From a plate 10cm square to a full sheet.

We use him all the time for work, actually picking up a big load of stuff this morning from him.

For reference, they can laser up to 15mm steel, 12mm stainless and 6mm aluminium plate within 0.2mm tolerance.

They also do folding. Ill fire some pictures up later when I go round to see the bits

Can they do rebates, chamfers and counter sunk holes on the cut parts?
I'm looking some 2,3 & 6mm aluminium parts machined for a custom intake.
 

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Can they do rebates, chamfers and counter sunk holes on the cut parts?
I'm looking some 2,3 & 6mm aluminium parts machined for a custom intake.

If it's a few off they can I think

They don't like big quantities of countersunk holes but can do them. They paid us to countersink 2 holes in about 600 plates they laser cut lol

Send me a sketch or cad model if you have it and I'll fire it over to him as I've to ring him on Monday anyway

If not we could machine the parts after laser cutting
 

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I've just sent the files to them for quote after being on the website. I can stick the files on ovedrive later and send you a link if you are interested in them.
 

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Why not just get it cut locally?

There is many laser and water cut places locally

I was at a company today who have a new 5 axis water jet 6m x 5m table size. Not much they couldn't cut with that
Because the problem with 9/10 companies in NI is they don't seem to want your business, they are so slow and their customer service is so abysmal it's a painful experience to go near them.

A friend tried several places here recently to get parts water cut, not an inconsequential order size, and the devil may care attitude of the companies effectively drove his business to England.
 

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Why not just get it cut locally?

There is many laser and water cut places locally

I was at a company today who have a new 5 axis water jet 6m x 5m table size. Not much they couldn't cut with that
Surely too dear to run that beast for small parts/orders
 

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Surely too dear to run that beast for small parts/orders

He was telling me his machine was off once in 6 months running 24/7, then it's down for a week for service, it loads and unloads itself so he programmes it during the day for the night and leaves it to it.
 

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Because the problem with 9/10 companies in NI is they don't seem to want your business, they are so slow and their customer service is so abysmal it's a painful experience to go near them.

A friend tried several places here recently to get parts water cut, not an inconsequential order size, and the devil may care attitude of the companies effectively drove his business to England.

Anything I've ask this guy to cut has been very quick, maybe because we use him for big orders in work

Tho several times I've rang up and said I need 2 off say plate 150mm square plate cut urgently to finish a job and he has had then cut within the hour and that's ibly worth like £10 and he never conplains

Suppose it's down to finding that I've good business out of the 10.

We used another guy before and everything was an issue, took ages, didn't reply to emails etc hence why we changed

As above his machine is always going, water cut can be a it harder to get someone to do and more expensive.

Out of interest what thickness was gd getting water jet?

We normally get anything up to 15mm lasered, 15-25/30 plasma cut and bigger than that flame cut, tho if machinig the 15-20/30 something as for it flame cut as plasma leaves a really hard edge on it and it wrecks the cutters in the mill very quickly
 
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