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Re: Planing Thick-Wall Aluminum

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Originally Posted by MrForbes View Post
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?
We'd have to do 0.75" cheese holes due to the positioning of a few cross rails, guide rails and other items on the lift. We could do it since we have the right drill bit already, but it'd take a bit of time since there's not a set pattern we could do all the way down the rail.