Standard Machine-Ready Blanks

Product catalog summary

Company Overview: TCI Precision Metals, founded in 1956, specializes in producing precision Machine-Ready Blanks from materials like aluminum, stainless steel, and other alloys. The company holds ISO 9001 and AS9100 certifications, ensuring high-quality standards and continuous improvement.

Product Offerings: The catalog includes various Machine-Ready Blanks such as 2-Side Precision Blanks, 6-Side Precision Blanks, Round Precision Blanks, and Aluminum Strip Blanks. These are available in materials like 6061 and 2024 aluminum, 304 and 316 stainless steel, and 4140 carbon steel.

Specifications: Blanks are precision cut and ground to specific tolerances. For instance, 2-Side Precision Blanks are ground or milled on two sides for thickness and flatness to +/-0.002 inches, with width and length saw cut to specific tolerances.

Benefits: Machine-Ready Blanks save time and increase efficiency by eliminating additional machining preparation, arriving ready for CNC machining, thus reducing setup time and increasing shop capacity.

Custom Options: Custom Machine-Ready Blanks are available for orders requiring tighter tolerances, with precision ground and milled specifications as close as +/-0.0005 inches.

Ordering Information: Customers can select material, alloy type, and blank type from the catalog and order via phone, email, or the TCI Precision Metals website.

Aluminum Specifications: The document details specifications for 6061, 2024, 5052, and 3003 aluminum plates and sheets, focusing on dimensions, temper types, and part numbers. 6061 is available in T651 temper, 2024 in T3 and T351 tempers, 5052 in H32 temper, and 3003 in H14 temper.

Stainless Steel Specifications: 304 stainless steel is noted for affordability and corrosion resistance, suitable for various applications. 316 stainless steel offers superior corrosion resistance, ideal for harsh environments.

Carbon Steel Specifications: 4140 carbon steel is versatile, used in industries for its toughness and resistance to abrasion and impact.

Precision Blanks: 2-Side and 6-Side Precision Blanks are available, precision ground or milled for thickness, width, and length, with tolerances of +/- .002 inches.

Contact Information: For orders, contact TCI Precision Metals at 800-234-5613 or visit their website at www.tciprecision.com.

Catalog excerpts

Standard Machine-Ready Blanks Materials Catalog

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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 part....

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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 cut...

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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 processed...

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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, ready...

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