MoreWellie
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Trying to make up my mind how to produce a case around something, probably in 2mm thick aluminium sheet
I will probably need to roll one edge to one of the shapes below, haven't decided yet which shape
the roll part of the edge would want to be about 10mm inside diameter
i thought about using a steel rod and cutting a slot but as I would want this across a sheet about 350mm wide I don't think there would be enough strength left in the rod to bend the aluminium without twisting the rod
or more likely there wouldn't be enough strength in me to twist it
This would be a one off so I was trying to avoid the need to produce some tooling to do it in a press although it may be possible to do something quite basic with square and angle iron and then pushing a rod into it
any other suggestions?
I will probably need to roll one edge to one of the shapes below, haven't decided yet which shape
the roll part of the edge would want to be about 10mm inside diameter
i thought about using a steel rod and cutting a slot but as I would want this across a sheet about 350mm wide I don't think there would be enough strength left in the rod to bend the aluminium without twisting the rod
or more likely there wouldn't be enough strength in me to twist it
This would be a one off so I was trying to avoid the need to produce some tooling to do it in a press although it may be possible to do something quite basic with square and angle iron and then pushing a rod into it
any other suggestions?