Looking for rectangle metal bar

Edited By sean logie on 03/10/2017 15:43:21

I'm a very satisfied customer of m-machine metals.

Give them a try.

Jon

M metals is £58 + shipping which with Sean living in the HIghlands (if i remember ) will worlk out expensive.

These lot on ebay sell 250mm of 3x2" for £29.83 and 500mm of 3x2" for £45.63 or a letre for £59 Shipping included.But being in the highland they do say there may be a charge.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mild-Steel-Flat-Bar-Bright-Largest-Selection-on-eBay-/122455034298?var=&hash=item1c82e389ba:m:m0L7CPnIwkSPHTPwblEJFmw

there may be cheaper elsewhere or a local steel stockholder etc...

Edited By mark smith 20 on 03/10/2017 16:30:38

Bright or black?

Is this suitable?

https://jenkinssteelonlinemetal.co.uk/product/3-x-2-flat-bar-x-500mm-bright-080a15/

Think I might have to go and see my friendly machinist shop .Just measured the mill and I'll need 80mm x 40mm x 400 . Which end mill would be best suited for hogging the 15mm either side off material for making the dovetail , I'll probably try!! and do this in the Centec which has a mt2 tapered spindle .

Sean

I didnt know they had a website shop actually £4 cheaper than what i stated above from their ebay shop. Must be adding in paypal/final value fees to their prices on ebay.

Would have thought a side and face cutter in the Horz mill would hog it out better than using an end mill. If you do want to use a milling cutter then try a Roughing one, sometimes called a ripper.

Lucky for me, they are going to be ten mins up the road when I move..( pretty soon..)

Sure, I'll pay them a visit and say hi.....

End mills are considerably cheaper than horizontal cutters ,there are plenty of used one's out there and they're not easy to resharpen I'm led to believe .

Sean

Here near my shop is a dealer that buys redundant metals of all sorts and resells them at a price less than a third of the cost of new, isn't there metal mongers that do the same over by you guys?

Sean, have you thought about contacting your local steel stockholders in Inverness?

e.g. **LINK** or http://www.inverfab.co.uk/services/

Expensive prices on line, but I guess you could offer to collect and see what they might have in the scrap bin.

Bill.

Edited By peak4 on 03/10/2017 21:21:32

All the above prices seem way over the top to me. Luckily living in the Midlands I am close to many steel stockholders and tend to buy from their offcut rack for cash.

Are you trying to make a raising block for the Centec vertical head? Mine is made of light alloy and its fine, no need for steel. Its a 3 inch square piece or thereabouts.

+1

No point in having a horizontal mill if you don't use it to make swarf; 1" wide cutter and ½" DOC:

All my S&F cutters and slab mills are secondhand, via Ebay. Many still had the wax coating,so either new or reground. Don't think I've paid more than £10 for a cutter. Of course there are always the dreamers asking silly money, and cutters with teeth missing, but it should be possible to find decent cutters at a sensible price.

I have the wherewithal to sharpen S&F cutters, although thus far I haven't needed to.

Andrew

If that is a good guess, at 400mm, he would need to have two stabs at it. Table travel is only about 225mm on a 2A. A 40mm riser is neither here nor there, I would say. My ally riser is about 120mm - and that is on a 2B. The work entailed would be considerable and a decent sized riser would only cost extra material. Could bolt on the other dovetail, I suppose....

But it is also a much bigger slab of metal, it's all proportional. Also the amount of metal that a S&F cutter can remove before it goes blunt would be quite a bit more before an endmill is past its best so figure in the cost of two or 3 milling cutters to one S&F

If I'm right going by past posts this is for a run of QCTP tool holders

Edited By sean logie on 04/10/2017 07:48:28