Originally Posted by
David Bathe
Cheers Paul, love the pictures and the utter simplicity process.
I hadn't thought about using a simple cut channel for the female and the corner of a block to form the 45deg V.
Nice!
All the discussion about alluninium sheet. There's a real different between sheet and foil and it not just the thicknesses, which can apply to both.
Foil is softer, more pliable... it wants to cooperate. Plate doesn't. It wants top remain flat untill heat or force or both is applied.
Which is fine but require far to much effort and tooling up costs for a model.
Scroll down to the bottom of this page and see the film. Towards the end he presents a 200 microm foil thats perfect for what im after.
Last is the 300 micron verson, it's on the edge of being sheet. not as cooperative as the 200um.
https://www.aluxfoil.com/en/webshop-...l-alufoil.html
I would never have walked down the road unless I'd seen what Paul had achieved.
Cheers mate.
As I haven't yet done any research on official terminology that defines the difference between foil and thin gauge sheet metal, I would simply say that thin gauge aluminum is something that's adequately strong enough to make a soda can out of and aluminum foil is something that's weak enough to wrap around hollow chocolate Easter Bunnies.
Although soda can gauge aluminum has the slightest amount of structural strength, I would suspect that anyone who finds it excessively difficult to manipulate, is suffering from either a severe lack of muscle tone or ingenuity.
