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I am basically building a frame and want to do it as one whole piece for strength reasons. So yes there is going to be crap ton of milling. No pun intended here. Now let’s say the weight calculated of the steel block at 2200 pounds is deadly accurate. My guess and really not sure but frame...

There will lots of machining to do your suggesting to use 0.250 sheets as opposed to the 0.750 sheets for less chipping and fuzz? 0.750 sheets= 8 layers to 6 inches 0.250 sheets= 24 layers to 6 inches!

@PeterT Thanks man I think I’ll try to get the 0.750 MDF sheets and laminate them to together to get my 6inch depth. At 40 bucks(Home Depot) a sheet seems a lot cheaper than using metal to shart with. Cut and laminate my 36X36X6 block together. Don’t know much about laminating tho and never...

Potentially @Janger been thinking about it and even plastics just need to be able to be cut and shape possibly with ballnose endmill and not not crack or blow up or fall apart.(The material not the endmill) Some more critical dimensions need to checked and finalized so material needs to keep...

I honestly don’t want to go steel but steel is cheaper than aluminum. Not hobby machines that’s for sure lol... ;)

Hi I am currently prototyping a larger intense project. I expect there to be a lot screwing up before I get it perfect. Looking for cheapest steal and aluminum chucks 36”X36”X6”(Thick) At this time grade really doesn’t matter as long as it can be machined easily and costs cheap I don’t care...

The VDF is my brothers machine and it’s a beast you can run that machine very hard if you want too. My brothers machine is bigger than the one you got pictured there.

Nice find and something that sounds like it was barely used or run hard. Love the clean up pics and something that I have done before with a old much larger VDF lathe. I wiped out the entire headstock as the bearings were shot and needed replacing.

Thanks for responses and tidbits of info PeterT- Thanks for the welcome and no I am not the T1000 or some other variation. I am human... Everett- Thanks for the welcome and yes Edmonton had the DIY shop there was even a chance to get a share in it for 100 when first started up. Can’t remember...

Hi Canadian Metal Workers! I found this group online by accident simply running a google search for cheap sources of material for prototyping a project I have in mind. Still very heavily in the development stage but was starting the process to looking for chunk of material to check and...