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Originally posted by JSimmons
Well, here's what I did...
I used a steel ruler, and a pair of new (now ruined?) scissors and carved the pieces out of the aluminum sheet. Then, I used a paper cutter in the office (probably a bad idea) to do the final cuts.
The only problem with using the paper cutter is that it curls the metal as you cut.
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I use that type of sheet metal everyday in brass, aluminum, stainless, and sometimes copper. We have a little cutter made to cut it. They are about $350 though. We also have a bigger one that will do larger sheets. At the other shop we have whats called a slitter. It rotates a couple sharp round bladed that cuts the metal as it automatically feeds it. Mainly use that for steel sheet metal tough. At the shop we get the larger stuff done they have a cut off machine. Hit a button and it sheers the peice.
You can also get tin snips. We use Swiss brand. They are about $16.00 at home depot. You can cut a prety strait line with practice.
Probably to late on this though.
