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[essex2visuvesi]

Anyone on here with a thicknesser?


My son is rebuilding a Triumph Spitfire and is doing some mods along the way, one of which is an brushed aluminium dashboard.


Plan is to "Skin" the existing (and quite knackered) wooden dash panels with brushed aluminium.  In order to do this properly we need to skim 1.5mm off the face of the panels.  Is there anyone on here that could do this for us?


Happy to supply beer tokens and cover costs


These are the parts in questions

[Captain fizz]

You may be better copying those in the thickness that you want and selling those on.

[essex2visuvesi]

You may be better copying those in the thickness that you want and selling those on.

Those are just for reference, not the actual parts.... ours are in much worse shape

[Subculture]

Why not just make aluminium parts in a reasonable gauge, turn some flanges on the edges to get some stiffness in, then use standoffs to mount them to the car.

[Crossie]

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                     Trevor

[tigertiger]

You probably already know this, so sorry if I am telling anyone how to suck eggs here.


With thin pieces to be planed, and in your case because there are lots of narrow sections of wood between cut outs, you shouldn't put the wood directly into the planer. Instead it should be mounted with double sided carpet tape, onto a board that is longer than the work-piece. This will prevent twist, chances of breaking the trailing edge will be diminished, and snipe at the end of the work-piece should be eliminated.


It took me a couple of years to discover this trick.

[inertia]

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[essex2visuvesi]

Thanks for the responses chaps.
I'll be in touch