Working With Metal

[av405]

I'm currently trying to fashion a type of front bumper using K&S Precision Metal strips, specifically 1/32 x 1/8 in size. These are the same type of strips sold at Hobby Lobby. I was wondering what would be the best tool to cut these pieces and what would be the best adhesive to use to glue,say, a piece to plastic or to glue a piece of evergreen strip to the actually metal piece? I've never worked with these metal strips before. Thank you.

[southpier]

cutting could be done with a standard razor saw - a bit big and file it down to final size. if it's brass you're using, you could solder it together. if it's aluminum, i would guess 2 part epoxy would be the choice adhesive. and either be keyed with some mechanical interlock to the plastic and then attached with either ACC or the same epoxy. i think the better you interlock the pieces and depend less on adhesive the better the end result (i.e., not falling apart 3 years down the road).

[av405]

Thank you for your detailed answer, it helped a lot