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MetroMPG · 08-16-2017, 02:54 PM

Sheet metal is from a furnace housing - just mild steel. (My brother was a heating/cooling technician, so I got a little stockpile of sheet metal from him).

It's thicker than the stock metal -- I can barely cut it by hand using tin snips... Happily that means it's thick enough that I can weld it without burning through... too often.

I had some pics to post, but the SD card in my camera apparently died. (How does that happen?)

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