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I think it bolts together. Never thought of using it for something like this. Put it in a wood frame and away we go. Great exicutionGPW wrote:How are you going to join the Aluminum frame …. welding ?
GPW wrote:How are you going to join the Aluminum frame …. welding ?
amandacreiglow wrote:GPW wrote:How are you going to join the Aluminum frame …. welding ?
You mean for my doors? Or for his project, or for my next one?
I have no experience or interest in welding, and I hear aluminum is tricky to weld anyway. But the t-slot profiles are designed to be bolted together with fasteners. They sell a bunch of proprietary ones, but they're expensive and bulky, so I spent a while figuring out what I would use instead.
There are these little nuts that slide into the side of the beam and auto-center, and you can just tighten them down with M6 10mm machine screws.
It's tricky getting brackets with big enough holes so that the screws don't stick out way far, but I've started manually widening the tops of them with a drill to help them have a lower profile in the places it matters.
Here's an overly artistic shot of my off-cuts/waste metal, just because I was super excited to cut it for the first time. :-)
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[/quote]alchemist77 wrote:I think it bolts together. Never thought of using it for something like this. Put it in a wood frame and away we go. Great exicution
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