Anyone have a CNC router for Aluminium?

I need a couple of MTB shock mount plates milled out of 9mm thick Aluminium. I have the CAD files and can export to any format needed, I just don't have a cnc mill.

Any frame builders out there have one? Have spare capacity for a couple of small parts (40mm x 50mm x 9mm)? How much?

@coldharbour might know someone, as might @mdcc_tester and @Hulsroy

How much?

Min. £100, unless you get really lucky finding a shop which has nothing else to do. Up to £1000 if your design is complicated, e.g. tricky to hold for second op etc.

I have a CNC but no time I am afraid.

Hi, I can make for you I think . We cut the prototyping parts too.Send me to priv. or orlowskiframes@gmail.com

@mdcc_tester yeah, £100 seems to be the quote i'm getting everywhere. I was kind of hoping someone had small DIY CNC in the garage they'd be willing to put to use.

@orlowskiframes I'll ping you the .STL tonight

was kind of hoping someone had small DIY CNC in the garage

@danstuff has one in his kitchen.

Fraid not. I've got a non-CNC mill in the dining room. The only tools in the kitchen are a wheel-building stand and an ultrasonic cleaner.

Your house sounds amazing!

Try your local Design/Engineering Dept at a Uni if you're nice to the Techs they might help you out. Or a 'Fablab' Type space where you can normally just rent time on machines.

There are photos of it here somewhere. Including the lathe and TIG welder in the dining room.

Try South Thames UTC, they are looking for simple jobs for their students to get their teeth into.

I've managed to find what I need in the end, so making my own is probably overkill now.
Thanks for the South Thames UTC & Fablab suggestions, I'll give them a look next time.

@danstuff is this your kitchen?

Also, are you this guy:

Colin Furze

No, and no. This is my dining room/workshop:

...simply epic....

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Dredging this thread up as I'm looking for someone who can CNC a simple design into a small (25mm by 60mm) piece of brass.

a simple design

Show the design, it makes a big difference to who is best approached to make it.

It’s a brand to be burned into a guitar headstock. The design is being done by @amey and should be something like this.

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It’s a brand to be burned into a guitar headstock

Brass wouldn't be my first choice for a brand, but then again branding wouldn't be my first choice if I was only going to mark one thing, now that lasers exist. If you're set on branding because it is a slightly different look and feel from laser marking, a specialist brand maker is probably going to be more economical than a generalist CNC shop, e.g. $85 for a 1"×2" brand:
https://www.makersmarkbranding.com/product/flame-heated-branding-iron-standard-use

That's a complete tool ready to use, so all the image format conversion, 2D to 3D design, CAM programming, handle making and assembly included. At a general CNC shop, you'll have burned through £100 before a spindle has turned, and you'll either have to get a second rate brass product or suck up a significant PITA premium for copper because not many people have their tooling, feeds and speeds dialled in for that unless they do habitually do electrode work.

Have you considered water jet cutting as another way to get this done.
I have no connection other than as a very satisfied customer for a few jobs that have been done for me but I can recomend
Kent Waterjet Cutting Ltd.
They are in Ramsgate Kent
Ever so helpfull and tidied up my Illustrator file on one job I had drawn up.

I have an entire CNC machine shop @bicyclemanufacturing

Have you looked into a plotter cut stencil some uv mask and acid etching some materials.... You can do that on your kitchen table