[sdiy] HSM article

[Ian Fritz]

Listers --

The latest issue (Sept/Oct 2003) of The Home Shop Machinist has an article 
by Ted Roubal entitled "Functional Sheet Metal Enclosures from Sheet Brass 
and Aluminum" that may be of interest to people making custom enclosures, 
panels, etc.

Topics include: layout techniques, accurate and clean drilling of all sized 
holes, bending, filing, deburring, soldering, polishing, and protecting. A 
great collection of the best techniques to use.

As an example, here's one I never heard of -- a drill-press operated 
deburring tool.  It has a spring-loaded blade that pops in and out of the 
shaft, deburring the top surface as the tool is inserted and the bottom one 
as it is removed, without enlarging the hole at all.

HSM may be a bit hard to find, and their articles generally suffer from 
poor (i.e., nonexistent) editing, but this one might be worth tracking down.

   Ian