Understanding Sheet Metal Fabrication and It's Applications
Sheet metal has become a facet of modern day  life for many people and whether they aware  of this or not, the affordable  building material is used in most everything from sensitive  electronics equipment to the construction of entire buildings.  Typically when people think of sheet metal  they think of aluminum or steel since that is the form it commonly takes where it can be seen; but what many people don't realize  is that the process of creating the metal sheets has been applied to many different metals  and have been given different names since they typically have different functions  then construction.  For the most obvious  example, tin foil is actually a type of sheet metal of an exceptionally  high gauge so that it can be easily bent and ripped  for various purposes. Another common form of sheet metal is known as 'leaf', where gold, platinum , or silver is rendered down to sheet metal and used as a form of decorative covering for otherwise plain jewelry or statuar...