On 20 Jan 2005 16:38:13 GMT, Charles A. Sherwood wrote:

It's been over thirty seconds (20 years) since bashing aluminum into
compound irregular shapes... but I think t-6 must be annealed first in order

I took a small piece of 6061-T6 about 3/16 square and tried to bend it.

How do you bend something that's 3/16ths of an inch square? How do
you hold something like taht? Or did I miss something?