Bullet2012
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That's the most 'steel' looking bit of ally I've seen!
Agree, no way am I an expert but it is an odd looking ally
That's the most 'steel' looking bit of ally I've seen!
I do have a table saw with a TCT blade, certainly looks a possibility, wonder if it would jigger the blade?If you have a table saw, Id set the blade height and wizz down using the fence.
If you haven’t then a sheet of ply, with a slot cut for the blade. Screw the saw to the under side and fix a batten for a fence.
It’s so obviously ns3 aluminium sheet by the way it bent, the scratches and the shear face!
Time to go back to school boys
It's quite obvious it's not obvious old chap, if it was there would be no comment on it. It has a blue hue like hot rolled steel and some orange staining which looks like rust, I learned at school that aluminium was aluminium coloured.
Soft steel also scratches as I'm quite sure you know, and how you can tell from the shear face I don't know, here's a picture of the shear edge of some steel....which humourously enough looks more like aluminium in the picture..looks very similar to me.
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Nobody is saying it's steel, just that it looks like it in that picture...
Shouldn't do much to it tbh. If you need it for fine woodwork sling an old blade on it first.I do have a table saw with a TCT blade, certainly looks a possibility, wonder if it would jigger the blade?
RonA
Ummmmm! Not sure I’d agree with that. It obviously is aluminium because he’s said it is and he’s in front of it not us, however the camera and lighting has caught that in such a way it looks like hot rolled steel sheet. It looks rusty. It’s obviously not but that’s how it appears.Ok I apologise, it’s only obviously aluminium to metal workers
I do have a table saw with a TCT blade, certainly looks a possibility, wonder if it would jigger the blade?
RonA
I might seem a big headed font
But my skills with sheet metal are slightly different to a ‘fabricator’ and I know how ns3 behaves, I’ve made enough complete car bodies to know and that material has the tinge of not rust like you say but the mill oil on ally
On the shear you can see it yielded further than steel before it failed.
That rust is off the folder or dirty bench or whatever
Jeez i would have it done quicker than reading through this darn thread
Me too, and I have saved precious minutes of my life...