Large bed; finding it hard to find one!

Hey all,

For anyone who follows my sporadic posts, you'd know that I'm building a large CoreXY. I seem to have a solution for most of the problems except one... I can't find a suitable bed.

It's been suggested that I use 'tooling plate' but no where in my city seems to sell it. Furthermore I'm not having much luck finding someone who's just machine standard aluminium plate to be flat within a reasonable tolerance.

What other solutions are out there?

FYI, the build area is approx 500mm x 500mm.

Ebay is full of cast tooling plate sellers.

There are plenty of on line metals shops that sell the stuff, too. Check Speedy Metals.

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the_digital_dentist
Ebay is full of cast tooling plate sellers.

There are plenty of on line metals shops that sell the stuff, too. Check Speedy Metals.

Not in Australia.

[www.ebay.com.au]

Use wooden base, something like 16mm thick ought to do it, whatever heating element you choose, and glass on top of it. Ikea sells cheap mirrors you could cut down in size
If using aluminium heatbed @ 4mm, you got a total material thickness of 30mm then, should remain very flat

Do a search for 'cast aluminum tooling plate'. Mic 6 is Alcoa's brand name and doesn't seem to be easy to find in Australia.

Here's one in Australia: [www.calm-aluminium.com.au]

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etfrench
Do a search for 'cast aluminum tooling plate'. Mic 6 is Alcoa's brand name and doesn't seem to be easy to find in Australia.

Here's one in Australia: [www.calm-aluminium.com.au]

Thanks for the link but they don't do small hobby stuff (they're trade only). Really annoying to say the least.

I'm getting mine shipped from a UK seller to Ireland. I can't find anyone here for that either. Just have to buy it from another country.