Aluminium sheet grade for machining?

[Raz]

Are you ordering a full sheet or just a bit?
If the latter they're probably not prepared to buy a sheet to cut a bit off for your order, if it's a full sheet just find a supplier who can be bothered.

Edit:
It's obviously an available product -

http://www.ssaltd.net/index.php/alum...ium-grade-6082

Thanks for that, yeah unfortunately its just smaller bits - makes sense now that you mention it, why no one has it 'in stock'!

I will try search around a bit more locally to see if I can pick some up, but will likely order in some 5251 anyways to test it out. As if I can machine this ok, it will solve all future problems.