Anyone got recommendations for wallet friendly cnc milling services?

[Munkul]

Complete Engineering Services (Carlisle) Ltd not particularly cheap but very good to deal with. Talk to Nathan

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There's a lot of decent machine shops around Carlisle, we subbed out around 30k worth in the last year. Complete are great, but there are cheaper.

 

[Bki26]

If you can find someone to machine them I can probably find a bit of plate to suit.
A bit 20mm thick that's big enough to nest all the parts and allow for clamping and you should be able to machine them all out in one go.
Or different thickness of plate will save you money on material costs but increase setup costs/time for machining.

Ignore the ebay prices as they have muppet tax on but I'd be surprised if you can source the materials and have it machined in the uk for less than what the chinese will charge you.
Downside with china and prototyping is the turnaround time and when you find out the prototype is not quite right. You can't just send something back to have another mm taken off or pick up the phone to the machinist and ask for advice on something that didn't come out as you were expecting.

Yea, I'd rather support local and might have found a nearby shop that's more of an old school "family run" kind of company rather than corporate (even the website looks nice as old school simple! www.forrestprecisioneng.com/) but ultimately I need to keep it as cheap as possible since being destroyed in the name of safety and would machine it myself if it wasn't complex curves and doable on a manual mill.
I'm glad I have been able to do the prototyping in the 3d model and prints as before these 3d printers it would have cost a fortune to prototype.

 

[m_c]

I can send you the files if you'd like to have a look, I'd buy the material for it if I could find a seller for 7075 as seems like hens teeth on ebay lol

If you want to send me the files, I'll get a look at them.
I did have a look tonight, and I've got 15 and 20mm bar. Also found a lump of 30mm, which I have no idea what I bought that for!
All will be either 6061 or 6082 though.