You could duck down to your local aluminium welding engineering workshop in an industrial area. They probably have a small offcut of say 3mm sheet or 100 x 3 flat bar should be large enough. Scrap metal merchant maybe or off a council pick up, that's where I often get good pieces of aluminium.
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