Matthew N. Masail
10-20-2013, 6:51 AM
Hi Guys, I post mainly in the Neadrethal woodworking forum, however I thought this question would be far more appropriate for your expertise.
I'm making a Banding Iron for guitar making, and went out to buy a pipe. I was hoping for something with a 1\8 inch wall thickness but the closest I could find was a
3 1\2 inch Diameter 6061Aluminuim pipe with 1\4 wall thickness. it was cheap enough so I decided to give it a shot.
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The original plan was to go over it with a car to make it oval or (hopefully) tear-drop (ish) shape. but with 1\4 wall thickness I was thinking this may not be a good idea? as the walls might crack? or it might be too strong to do this with?
the other way I imagine is to cut along the length and then bent it into a tear drop shape, but then how to weld\braze the bond?
I have to bond the aluminum plate in the picture to seal the top side anyway, but I have no metal working skills and the bond must hold up to 250 degrees Celsius. is this something the can be trusted to an non professional metal shop? I'm in Israel, and the guys at the metal supply didn't know of any shop that they could recommend for aluminum work. any DIY way to accomplish this?
Thank so much !
Matthew
I'm making a Banding Iron for guitar making, and went out to buy a pipe. I was hoping for something with a 1\8 inch wall thickness but the closest I could find was a
3 1\2 inch Diameter 6061Aluminuim pipe with 1\4 wall thickness. it was cheap enough so I decided to give it a shot.
273341
The original plan was to go over it with a car to make it oval or (hopefully) tear-drop (ish) shape. but with 1\4 wall thickness I was thinking this may not be a good idea? as the walls might crack? or it might be too strong to do this with?
the other way I imagine is to cut along the length and then bent it into a tear drop shape, but then how to weld\braze the bond?
I have to bond the aluminum plate in the picture to seal the top side anyway, but I have no metal working skills and the bond must hold up to 250 degrees Celsius. is this something the can be trusted to an non professional metal shop? I'm in Israel, and the guys at the metal supply didn't know of any shop that they could recommend for aluminum work. any DIY way to accomplish this?
Thank so much !
Matthew