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Standard Machine-Ready Blanks
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Standard Machine-Ready Blanks Materials Catalog

Making Precision Machine-Ready Blanks Since 1956 Founded in 1956, TCI Precision Metals is a value-added metals distributor producing close tolerance Machine-Ready Blanks from aluminum, stainless steel, and other alloys. Precision sawing, waterjet cutting, grinding, duplex milling, flattening, and finishing operations make TCI a one stop materials source for precision Machine-Ready Blanks. TCI Precision Metals is ISO 9001 and AS9100 certified and committed to continuous improvement with documented quality management and manufacturing processes that ensure repeatable accuracy from part to...

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Table of Contents How to Use This Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 What Are Standard Machine-Ready Blanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 What Are Custom Machine-Ready Blanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Standard Aluminum Blanks 6061 Aluminum 2-Side Precision Blanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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What Are Standard Machine-Ready Blanks? Standard Machine-Ready Blanks are pre-configured material in hundreds of dimension and alloy combinations. Each precision blank arrives square, flat, and parallel making them machine-ready, eliminating the need for squaring up the material prior to finish machining. There are Four Types of Standard Machine-Ready Blanks to Choose from: 1. 2-Side Precision Blanks— Each blank is precision ground or milled 2-sides for thickness and flatness to +/-.002 ˝. Width and length for aluminum are saw cut to +.063-0˝. Width and length for stainless steel are saw...

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Machine-Ready Blanks are Flat and Made to Stay that Way Improve Quality Machine-Ready Blanks are made flat and designed to stay that way. Flatness is especially important as it eliminates the tendency for part movement during the machining process, especially with large surface area parts. Demand for flat material that resists movement during machining is high for two reasons, one, part movement can turn parts into scrap, and two, creating flat material, on your shop floor, that resists movement is harder than many people might think. The top and bottom surfaces of machine-ready blanks are...

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6061 Aluminum Plate and Sheet One of the Most Flexible Aluminum Alloys 6061 Aluminum is an aluminum-silicon-magnesium alloy which is strengthened through precipitation hardening, this makes for excellent machinability, bending and weldability. This alloy is corrosion resistant and has excellent joining characteristics, good acceptance to anodizing and is easily cold worked and formed in the annealed condition. 2-Side Precision Blanks • Precision ground or milled 2-sides on thickness to to +/-.002˝ • Width and length saw cut, +/-.063-0˝ • are flat, square (surface to edge) and parallel,...

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