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Re: Planing Thick-Wall Aluminum

you could, and it would not affect the strength much in the front-back direction, which is where it needs to be strong. What about cutting a bunch of 1.25ish diameter holes in the web instead?

And you probably could get away with more reduction at the top, than at the bottom, which coincidentally would help with the CG location