Harbor freight mill and lathe question

On the other hand you can cut aluminum with woodworking tools so you could router it out if you needed to


No router either. I figured no matter what I was going to have to start by drilling a hole so I’ll go from there. The aluminum plate showed up today so I coated with blueing and will start laying it out tomorrow. I ordered a set of plates from Headman on Wednesday and he told me they were in stock but I had to order them from a vendor so I ordered them through summit.