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Rtsbasic · 09.22.2005, 08:14 AM

Last time I tried bending some aluminium (approx 3mm thick) it cracked along the outer edge, the second time I heated it up with a blowtorch and tried, but it still happened. I think I might have been trying to do it over too small of a radius. For the motor plate on my RC10GT I did it over a slightly bigger radius, it still cracked there but not as bad as the first two, so I braced it against a bulkhead and had no problems with it so far.

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Rtsbasic RC-Monster England! Offline Posts: 425 Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: North Devon, England	09.22.2005, 08:14 AM Last time I tried bending some aluminium (approx 3mm thick) it cracked along the outer edge, the second time I heated it up with a blowtorch and tried, but it still happened. I think I might have been trying to do it over too small of a radius. For the motor plate on my RC10GT I did it over a slightly bigger radius, it still cracked there but not as bad as the first two, so I braced it against a bulkhead and had no problems with it so far.