On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:16:56 -0500, Don Foreman
wrote:

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:25:01 -0700, Tim Wescott
wrote:



Initially I think I'm going to buy a $20 brake from Horror Freight and
use a reciprocating saw to cut out the panels, then use a file and elbow
grease to clean up the cut.

For bends not more than a few inches, you can get by with some bits of
hardwood, a vise and a mallet. I've made lots of elex boxes and
chasses out of 1/16" ally (16-gage) with neither a brake nor a shear.
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http://www.lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk...al/sheetm.html
see
http://lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk/sheetmetal/index.html
and build your own brake, etc.

also see
http://lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk/slip/index.html
http://lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk/pipe/index.html
and
http://www.thesheetmetalshop.com/ind...ewtopic&p=3520


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).