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General questions about fabricating aluminum

2003

Hi all,

I'm working on a floor lamp design and that lamp'll have an aluminium body so I'm looking for a site where one can find some practical info about the usage of the aluminium.topics like different Al alloys, cutting and forming Al sheets, sticking Al plates together etc. any help with this will be very useful! and my concrete question's which's the best way for sticking two sheets of anodized aluminium together and is it possible to glue steel detail on aluminium?

Many thanx in advance!

Nikolay Katzarov
architect - Plovdiv, Pl, Bulgaria

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I appreciate and promote the value of the WWW because this website is my living. But when people want general education info, books are better. Websites like ours acquire tens of thousands of disparate pieces of helpful information; but tying it all together into a programmed instructional sequence is the work of man-years of human effort, and an author must be reimbursed for that kind of effort; the world seems further away than ever from a viable economic model for doing this on the web where the price-demand curve is "infinite demand at zero cost, zero demand at infinitesimal cost". :-)

There is a great series of books by Alcoa, each pocket book size and about 200 pages: Welding Alcoa Aluminum, Forming Alcoa Aluminum, finishing Alcoa Aluminum, etc. Please save yourself weeks of aggravation looking for websites, and get a few of these.

Good luck with your project!

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
2003