[TheForge] Foil/sheet/plate

[Mike Spencer]

Dave Smucker <davesmucker at hotmail.com> wrote:

> In ferrous metal there is very little foil produced since it becomes
> so hard to roll at very light gauges.  There are some special
> products for which it is produced in foil gauges but very expensive.

Somewhere I have a piece of stainless thin enough that I'd call it
foil.  Don't have a number but easily flexible with the fingers, about
the same thickness as an Al 11x14 photo offset plate or maybe a tad
less. 

No idea what it may have cost.  Someone gave it to me, maybe at an
ABANA conference or NEB meet years ago.

What can you tell us about making that?  Seems like a hard go, given
what you've said:

> The technical reason for this is that as the metal gets very thin the
> rolls flatten rather that the metal being rolled.


- Mike

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