3 Steps To Designing An Aluminum Lower

Aluminum lowers are a great way to save money on your next AR-15 build. They're also easy to make, but there are a few things you'll want to keep in mind when designing and making them

Here are five steps for designing an aluminum lower with a 3 axis CNC. This will get you started and make joining the parts of the lower together much easier than waiting for your parts to arrive in the mail. You can save money by making your own aluminum lowers (something many shooters do on their own).

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CNC Aluminum Machining

Aluminum is one of the most common metal materials to produce components for various fields, almost all fields. Also, CNC aluminum machining is a very common process for aluminum parts.

Aluminum is very easy for machining process because the material is soft and shaping keeper, it is suitable for many different production facilities, such as machining, extrusion, stamp, casting, etc.

With its good thermal conductivity and excellent shaping feature, temperature devices and electricity device and other industries are commonly using aluminum alloy. Aluminum alloy has many different materials codes to support wider demands.

Benefits of CNC Aluminum Machining

1/ Aluminum material is soft for machining, easy for CNC machining to carry out desired shapes

2/ CNC machining aluminum parts are durable for long term using, high resistance than steel series

3/ CNC machining aluminum parts are flexible to apply many kinds of surface finishing treatments

4/ CNC machining aluminum is good resistance against low temperature, which benefits for winter products

5/ Aluminum materials can be produced by many process, for example, forging, extrusion, stamp, casting, fabrication, etc.

6/ It is basically environmental material and supporting recycle collecting, material renewal benefits the burden of world

Composition And Property of CNC Machining Aluminum

Aluminum Property	Alloy Type	Content	Melting Point	Hardness	Tensile Strength	Density
Aluminum Property	Aluminum Based	Aluminum and others	660°C	HRC 22-35	80-345 MPa	2.72-2.82 g/cm3

Common Materials Code of CNC Machining Aluminum

Aluminum Alloy	Workable Processes	Surface Finishing for Aluminum Parts	Materials Code
	CNC Turning, CNC Milling, CNC Drilling, Molding, Extrusion, Fabrication, Welding, Casting, etc.	Chemical Film; Oxide; Anodizing, Painting, Plating, etc.	Aluminum 2024
			Aluminum 5052
			Aluminum 5083
			Aluminum 6061
			Aluminum 6063
			Aluminum 6082
			Aluminum 7050
			other more Aluminum Alloy

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