Re: very cheap (read: free) bases for your next gantry project

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Harvey White <madyn@i...>
wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:00:57 -0000, you wrote:
>
> >--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Gregory Kamysz
> ><smsupply@a...> wrote:
> >> I'm looking for a base for my machine now. Have you worked with
> >the
> >> material? What do you use to cut it? I don't need anything

that

> >big.
> >>
> >> Greg Kamysz
> >
> >
> >An alternate thing is to buy a regular surface plate. Some places
> >have great sales and you can get closer to what you need.
>
> An 18 by 24 inch surface plate weighs upwards of 150 pounds. a 12 x
> 18 surface plate weighs about 75. Unless you get imported, you're
> also talking about some serious money for the larger ones.
>
> Harvey

What is a *surface plate*, foreigner wants to know :)

Bengt