Hi guys - I am looking for a UK supplier for aluminium tooling plate (I think it's called MIC plate) - does anyone know of anywhere I can get some, and how much it's likely to cost me?

Cheers.

It's NIG6 that you want. Try the scrap metal merchants, some will let you look around the yard & pick stuff out. My local yard had some very big 1" offcuts, until I arrived:-) Otherwise look in the Yellow Pages under non-ferrous metal merchants.

Hi thanks for the reply - I didn't think anyone would ever bother!

I did actually find a source for tooling plate:

Metalfast : http://www.metalfast.co.uk/

and I ordered a shed load of C250 cast and machined tooling plate for the construction of my new CNC mill/lathe. It's a bit more expensive than plain 6082, but for me, not having to surface it makes it worthwhile.

I can't recommend them highly enough - they were very quick to quote me for my rather long shopping list, and had everything delivered on time and in the sub 25kg bundles I requested.