Source of small metal sheet about 1.2 mm thick

David · 2018-04-16T10:48:34+00:00

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

Apr 16, 2018 23 Replies

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David 8 years ago

Hopefully (!) no bending should be involved.

Cheers

Dave R

P.S. just remembered I have some SS in the recycle pile for the tip.

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Dave Plowman (News) 8 years ago

If something had already broken, bending of some sort is usually involved. ;-)

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Peter Parry 8 years ago

Local metal fabricators will probably sell you a piece from their scrap bin cheaply. Steel and aluminium the most commonly available.

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Rob Morley 8 years ago

If you don't have a local sheet metal stockist check eBay - I've had some small (A3 ?) sheets of aluminium at very reasonable rates (considering what the shipping cost must be). Otherwise car spares outlets usually have sheet steel in a variety of thicknesses at not-overly-exorbitant rates.

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