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>YOU WILL NEED Power drill, Metal Drill Bits, Craft Knife or Stanley Knife / Box Cutter, Tape Measure, 26 Inch Bike Wheel Cool cool cool >11 Aluminium lithogr
by FooHentai 6y ago
>YOU WILL NEED Power drill, Metal Drill Bits, Craft Knife or Stanley Knife / Box Cutter, Tape Measure, 26 Inch Bike Wheel
Cool cool cool
>11 Aluminium lithographic offset printing plates
the. WHAT.
I actually laughed out loud when I got to that bit. It's a bit... mental... if I'm honest.. that whomever wrote this up included that. After reading through I can see this can just be substituted for general thin metal sheets which you can pick up from pretty much any hardware store. I assume it blows the $30 price point up a bit but that's far preferable than having that one, show-stoppingly esoteric essential item on the list.
This kind of thing is very cool weekend project fodder. I suspect it'll take me a bit longer than the couple of hours they reckon.
- snakeboy 6y agoI assume it has to be aluminum since the weight is going to be a big factor in the efficiency, no ?
- leakybit 6y agowell aluminum wont rust.
- jandrese 6y agoI think the author happens to live near a printing plant or something that commonly tosses these in the trash or sells them for peanuts once they're worn out. You can substitute any large sturdy sheets of free aluminum that you happen to have nearby, as people do.
- Daniel_Connell 6y agoYeah I might update that with a little more info. Essentially it's just a matter of ringing round all the offset printing companies in your area til you find one that will sell you their used plates. I've only so far not managed to find them in the deep Australian outback, and the high Himalayas. Otherwise tho any ~0.3mm aluminium sheet will do. Weight and oxidisation are certainly issues, but mostly it's that the alu is easy to bend and cut by hand, and is more than strong enough to withstand high winds.