On 16/04/2018 11:48, David wrote:
Having a potential strategy to make up a small plate to fix the broken
caravan locker mechanism, I now need to source some metal.

The existing components are nice steel and roughly 1.2 mm thick, so that
seems a good starting point.

As usual, Google is not necessarily my friend.

My first thought was shim steel, but a quick search doesn't seem to go
above 0.8 mm. Not sure about galvanised mild steel such as

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07B3R6B2H/
ref=s9_acsd_top_hd_bw_bBCAKhL_c_x_w

I assume that aluminium would be lighter and easier to work with enough
strength for this job.

I seem to remember chucking out all my spare bits of waste metal which
might have come in useful as part of the ongoing tidy and downsize. Ah,
well.

Possible candidates at 1-1.2 mm

Shim steel (possibly two bits each 0.6 mm thick)

Mild steel (galvanised?)

Some kind of sheet plastic

Doesn't have to be massively structural, it is mainly to spread the load
and provide a backing to bond the broken bits of plastic onto.



Cheers



Dave R


I'd think about doing it in brass: easy to work, nice to look at,
corrosion resistant, stronger than aluminium. 1.2 mm is 47 thou, this
source has 32 or 64 (plenty more sources)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/K-S-Brass...a_kxuaoaBjRNIg