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Looking good. Are you going to lacquer it to keep it shiny?

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You can pick up a secondhand press for about 7-8 k over here, they are all 3 phase though. My folder will bend 8' of 3 mm steel or ali, or 3mm chequer plate, and cost me 1500.

You should get a manual folder. You can't fold plate as thick as that, but having the ability to fold means you can use thinner material more effectively. I have just finished a cross body tool box in 2.5 mm, all folded on my box and pan folder, tigged corners, glued and riveted overlapped...

Steel is roughly three times denser than aluminium, but you need to go about 50% thicker on sections and sheet/plate to get the same strength. Even taking that into account you should save at least one third in weight. The real beauty of ally is its corrosion resistance, for example I almost...