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[–] bbqchipz 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

At least it's Aluminum and cheap, Place I work at works primarily with exotic grade materials. I've seen single piece forgings that cost $130,000 go into some of our machines.

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[–] Thyhorrorcosmic103 [S] ago 

About the most exotic we get is inconel or incaloy. We do a lot of different kinds of stainless, though.

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[–] bbqchipz 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

We get ALOT of Hardened Stainless jobs. Inconel is fairly common, I'm personally working with Titanium job right now that's like $900 in material per part. We used to cut Tungsten in some ancient vertical mill we ended up getting rid of. I've seen Cobalt alloys, Waspaloy, and a bunch of other just really insufferably difficult alloys (they dont tell us what it is) that we just guess how hard it is and try to not spend 10 grand on tooling in a week.