Hi Mike,

If you rub soap along where you want to bend the bar and then heat it with a blowlamp or suchlike until the soap turns black, you should be able to bend it fairly easily.

Hope this helps,

Andy

Thanks, Andy.

I was able to form the aluminum bar for the curved parts of the structure around a straight coupling for rigid electrical conduit. The aluminum's springback left me with a good radius for the finished bends.

At this point I have the bar pieces pretty much in place. I have a few tweaks to add and a lot of clean up then I'll start adding sheet metal. Some I'll glue on, but most will be the back plates of the sub-panels which are held in place by screws. I'm planning on using the back plates as templates to hold the threaded spacers in place while I epoxy them to the frame work.

Panel Porn! \o/


Good job, Mike!

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My palms do get a little sweaty when I fondle, er, work with the metal.