The aircraft grade extrusion cast tooling plate aluminium is made to a variety of brand or house names essentially in 5000 series alloys and can be used for a variety of applications:
Aircraft Tooling
Automotive Tooling
Base Plates, Side Plates, Indexing Tables
CNC Routing Tables
Chip Printers
Circuit Printers
Dielectrics
Aluminium tooling plate is a term used to describe a range of proprietary aluminium durbar plate alloys that have been developed to offer improved performance over basic 5000, 6000 & 7000 grades.
Aluminium Rolled Plates are precision face-machined in a Ra 0.64µm finish. Using proper aluminium machining methods close thickness and flatness tolerance can be maintained uniformly. The rolling process gives an excellent granular structure and virtually eliminated porosity combined with a good tensile strength. Through adequate thermal treatment distortions and stresses are reduced to a minimum. This metal quality enables the manufacturing of thinner plates offering perfect dimensional stability, high resistance to corrosion and minimal porosity.
Cutting aluminium plate, usually in a 5000 series alloy, which has been rolled in the normal way. The plate is subsequently super annealed to provide stability, and then precision face machined to provide close tolerance dimensions.
Our tooling plate aluminium is supplied in a 5000 series aluminum alloy.
It is a cast product with both top and bottom surfaces machined to provide excellent thickness tolerances(+/-0.1mm). These surfaces re then protected with a removable PVC film
This product also provides good flatness stability when being machined so is ideal for moulds, casts and items that are heavily machined.
Advantages of bending aluminium propeller plate:
High tensile strength guaranteeing very good machinability and dimensional stability properties
No further costs for surfacing
Can easily be welded using 5183
Good anodizing (not decorative) and hardcoating properties
Good low temperature properties
Good seawater and resistance to corrosion