Having a potential strategy to make up a small plate to fix the broken caravan locker mechanism, I now need to source some metal.
The existing components are nice steel and roughly 1.2 mm thick, so that seems a good starting point.
As usual, Google is not necessarily my friend.
My first thought was shim steel, but a quick search doesn't seem to go above 0.8 mm. Not sure about galvanised mild steel such as
I assume that aluminium would be lighter and easier to work with enough strength for this job.
I seem to remember chucking out all my spare bits of waste metal which might have come in useful as part of the ongoing tidy and downsize. Ah, well.
Possible candidates at 1-1.2 mm
Shim steel (possibly two bits each 0.6 mm thick)
Mild steel (galvanised?)
Some kind of sheet plastic
Doesn't have to be massively structural, it is mainly to spread the load and provide a backing to bond the broken bits of plastic onto.
Cheers
Dave R