Flip the sheet over and repeat.
Hand forming aluminium sheet.
Resistance to corrosion varies.
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Place the fracture line over the edge of a table and bend the overhang slightly downwards.
Some are heat treatable and some are not.
With the aid of a straight edge and a sharp knife score both sides of the aluminium sheet.
Hand forming sheet aluminum requires a knowledge of the characteristics of this metal in the many alloys in which it is available.
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Our mallets slappers and hammers along with our shot bags t dollies and forming heads will fully equip you to start shaping metal with the right tools.
This weakens the aluminium and creates a fracture line.
Some are quite malleable and others so hard and springy as to challenge attempts to work them.