After owning a chinese 6040 for a few years, I am contemplating building new, bigger, stronger CNC Router using Extrusion.
I want to use Ali 20mm side plates for the gantry, but how do I cut them, cheaply?
I had a silly idea( Do you think this would work?)......Build the new machine out of Extrusion design the plates in CAD. and use the 6040 to cut out all the plates in MDF.
Asemble and use ththe NEW machine to cut all the final Ali plates? ( Is this as silly as it sounds?...lol)

Anyone done this?
Other options?

I don't think I could cut 20 mm ALi plates on my 6040. This is the whole reason for building a new machine.

Only other option is to design and test fit the plates out of MDF and try to find someone to pay to cut them all out?