Ecocast plate

[cncJim]

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to ask your experiences with ecocast aluminium plate.

I bought a piece and one side is perfect but the other has all sorts of marks all over it. I can post pics a bit later.

Their website says "precision machined on both faces" which I read as both side should be perfect but they have just told me that only one side is guaranteed to be good.

What do you guys think?

Thanks,
Jim

[JAZZCNC]

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to ask your experiences with ecocast aluminium plate.

I bought a piece and one side is perfect but the other has all sorts of marks all over it. I can post pics a bit later.

Their website says "precision machined on both faces" which I read as both side should be perfect but they have just told me that only one side is guaranteed to be good.

What do you guys think?

Thanks,
Jim

That's BULL SHIT Jim should be perfect on both sides. Should have also had protective film on both sides.

[cncJim]

That's BULL SHIT Jim should be perfect on both sides. Should have also had protective film on both sides.

Well to be fair it did have protective film on both sides, and both sides have been machined but these are the pics:-



You can see in the first pic one side is perfect, but the other has these marks/dents across the entire 900mm length.

[Boyan Silyavski]

Take that piece and and then

[JAZZCNC]

Completely unacceptable that Jim. Those are gouges not marks and would need something quite heavy to make them.

[m_c]

Can I take a guess the supplier has 'warehouse' in the name?

Given the BS I got when they decided to substitute my last order, followed by ignoring emails, and the person who'd have to deal with the problem mysteriously never being in when phoned and never phoning back, I now refuse to deal with them.

I've still got 20 metres of round bar lying in the workshop as a reminder, which I've got no use for, because you can't make a 15mm diameter part out of 9/16" bar, which is apparently a perfect substitution for 16mm...