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308guru

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jives said:
I'm mostly a woodworker with woodworking tools and have no machining capabilities, or need to machine the aluminum slab. It seems a waste to cut it up for odd projects here and there. As Ultradog pointed out, a 1" thick chunk of aluminum could be worth hundreds. I guess I should check around for a market.
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Worth hundreds :ROFLMAO:

A Mic6 plate with a bunch of holes in it and studs ground off. Sure it is.....You keep holding out on that.
 
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To close out this thread, I put in on FBM for $55, based on local scrap prices of $0.65/lb x 90 lbs (I did weigh it). Sold the next day to a guy needing material to practice on with his mill.

I'll probably regret it, but need room in the shop. Need to get rid of unused stuff.
 
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Old Man Roger said:
From there website, it looks like they have a way to know what it is they’re buying. I don’t even know what half of these are.lol
  • Monel
  • Cupro-Nickel
  • Hastelloy
  • Inconel
  • Waspaloy
  • Incoloy
  • Nickel
  • Titanium
  • And More
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-I've machined most of these, probably all of them at one time or another over the decades. I highly doubt this plate is any of these alloys due to cost and what the intended purpose of these materials are for. By weight alone any of these, except Titanium, would be over 100 lbs. Only Titanium (approx. 72 lbs.) or Magnesium (approx. 27 lbs.) are even close to the OP's estimation of 50 lbs. with Aluminum being the most likely at 43 lbs. At that size of a plate I can't imagine somebody cutting holes in a plate from these alloys (good luck with Waspaloy) for a test/tooling plate. I'm fairly certain that any of the above alloys can be had in that size but it would surely be a special order and a costly one at that. As another member pointed out: Nobody that really needs any of those materials is going to buy it without certs.

An aluminum alloy tooling plate that size? As common and available as oatmeal. Draw your own conclusions.


Edit: Wish I'd read the rest of the thread stating SOLD so I didn't do the weight calculations for different materials when it didn't matter any more. I'll leave it here for somebody else with unidentified metal (hint...just weigh it and do the math)
 
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RoninB4 said:
-I've machined most of these, probably all of them at one time or another over the decades. I highly doubt this plate is any of these alloys due to cost and what the intended purpose of these materials are for. By weight alone any of these, except Titanium, would be over 100 lbs. Only Titanium (approx. 72 lbs.) or Magnesium (approx. 27 lbs.) are even close to the OP's estimation of 50 lbs. with Aluminum being the most likely at 43 lbs. At that size of a plate I can't imagine somebody cutting holes in a plate from these alloys (good luck with Waspaloy) for a test/tooling plate. I'm fairly certain that any of the above alloys can be had in that size but it would surely be a special order and a costly one at that. As another member pointed out: Nobody that really needs any of those materials is going to buy it without certs.

An aluminum alloy tooling plate that size? As common and available as oatmeal. Draw your own conclusions.


Edit: Wish I'd read the rest of the thread stating SOLD so I didn't do the weight calculations for different materials when it didn't matter any more. I'll leave it here for somebody else with unidentified metal (hint...just weigh it and do the math)
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My post wasn’t implying his plate was any of the types of alloy listed, it was meant to imply some scrap yards have the equipment to figure out what it was he had. So your weight calculations we’re actually doubly unnecessary .lol
 
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