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Is anybody still supplying these plates made from Aluminium? I have recently ordered set's from two different suppliers only to be disappointed when stainless steel plates arrived.
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02-11-2017, 10:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-11-2017, 10:46 PM by Tony Betts.)
I have sympathy for you IAN.
I had heard the supplier over here had made them in stainless.
I guess the second supplier you have gone to, has stocked the part from the importing supplier.
I was told you can't stamp the numbers into stainless.
I make the chassis plate, to go onto the Ruby chassis. ( in vitrous aluminium ). But in small numbers and a quality material they are not cheap at £7.00 but nobody else makes them. So they do sell from time to time.
The customer who told me about the stainless ones, asked if I'd do some aluminium ones. But I can't see it being worth will at the price they have to be.
I'm surprised this one hasn't been brought to the forum sooner.
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Thanks to you both, you will be receiving orders from me shortly.
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On the subject of these replacement plates, has anyone a recommendation of punches with something like the original font?
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A quick update, one of the original suppliers has since come back to me offering to send some Aluminium plate's free of charge..... All's well that ends well.
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Does anyone do the style In the image I posted