Design Help Pt2 Required for CNC design/Build

[JAZZCNC]

I am looking to source aluminium toolplate (6082 T6) and have found a reasonably priced source in Milton Keynes (MetalFast) but that was awhile ago so I will need to recheck.

AW is good like Jonathan says but you really only need tool plate quality in just a few key places, like the Z Axis front/rear plates or for the Bed etc.

Things like gantry sides and general end plates or bearing brackets, motor mounts etc can be got from cheaper flat bar stock, still 6082 T6 just not machined perfectly flat.
The wider width's of flat plate stock can some times come slightly cupped but for none critical stuff or if machining several parts or brackets out of the width then it's not really a problem. . . Often just a quick surface will take away any cup. . . .Thou I must say the last few 300mm wide lengths I've had to deal with have been quite bad. The one I'm using at the moment is particulerly bad and if it wasn't for the fact I was cutting it up into smaller components then it would have been going back.!!