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Default Punching Holes in Sheetmetal

On Fri, 6 May 2011 20:49:54 -0700, "Steve B"
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My wife wants me to make some sconce lights out of sheets of sheet metal. I
can get paintlock of various thicknesses, but some is rather thick for hand
punching.

I want to punch squares or rectangles to get a stairstep southwest Indian
design type of thing, or variations on that theme.



EDM comes to mind.
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On Fri, 6 May 2011 20:49:54 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote:

My wife wants me to make some sconce lights out of sheets of sheet metal. I
can get paintlock of various thicknesses, but some is rather thick for hand
punching.

I want to punch squares or rectangles to get a stairstep southwest Indian
design type of thing, or variations on that theme.



EDM comes to mind.


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