Really not sure where I should place this post but I'm trying here. Not directly house-related but pretty sure someone here in the forum can help me.

I'm simply wondering where you can find really thin aluminum sheet, similar to this:

Round metal ring with holes, resembling a band or collar, made of thin aluminum sheet with metal rods across the top.

Really appreciate the help!
 
Plåtis (sheet metal company) has it on the shelf.

Really thin al-sheet is in a box in the kitchen, ask the wife for oven foil ;)
 
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Yes hehe but it becomes a bit too thin, it needs to be a bit stable as well.
 
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As I said, a larger sheet metal company has sheet metal from about 0.5 0.7 1.0 1.5mm and so on on the shelf, also coated with paint/foil in several colors.
 
Party. :) Thanks for the help! Need to check some plåtslagarefirma.
 
Found them here but they have an enormous amount of thicknesses: http://www.empiro.se/product.html/rostfritt-stal

You seem to know a bit, how thin can one go without a cylinder like the one in the picture buckling under the weight of about 1 liter of water?
 
1 liter of water? How big is it? After the picture, I thought it was 1 m in diameter.
What is it for?
I've seen large beer cans that are about a liter.
The link you sent was stainless steel, but there is an equivalent in AL.

Can't you use regular roof sheet, it lasts 50-60 years on a roof, available in white, brown, red, black.
 
There is a very popular outdoor stove for lightweight hikers called Caldera cone, which uses a windscreen made of some type of aluminum. I think it might be around 0.1mm.

Ultralight camp stove components including aluminum windscreen, fuel bottle, mesh, and solid fuel tablets arranged on a white background.

I thought I might try to make one myself just for fun :) it could be a good weekend project.
 
Enter a flea market with household goods to find an old aluminum pot. Drill guide holes and use a punch, then cut off the bottom when you are done with the air holes.

http://www.biltema.se/sv/Bygg/VVS/Verktyg-och-tillbehor/Haltagare-O-35-mm-2000018692/
There are probably smaller ones, didn't have the energy to look. :(

It is also possible to use, for example, a 13 mm drill if you grind a negative cutting angle on the drill.
 
Cut and sew something from regular beer cans. Weren't stoves made from beer cans a classic lightweight thing 15 years ago? Maybe it still is?
 
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It certainly was! Exciting if so! But in any case, it has become popular again in recent days! They are made in all sorts of ways and in different designs. Often weighing under 10 grams and are very effective.

Capillary burner (made from a Red Bull can) and perhaps something more advanced:

A homemade cat stove made from a cat food can with small holes on the top edge, used for efficient outdoor cooking.

Cat stove (made from a cat food can):

A homemade stove made from a cat food can with circular cut-outs, used for camping or outdoor cooking, placed on a light blue background.

Penny stove:

DIY penny stove made from an aluminum can, shown next to a coin for scale, used for lightweight camping and backpacking cooking.

But now it was a windscreen I needed to fix :)
 
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carlfredrik said:
I'm simply wondering where one can find really thin aluminum sheet
Just brainstorming, but it seems to me that regular aluminum sheet might not be the optimal material for something like that. Pure aluminum is quite plastic and deforms easily in thin dimensions. I suspect that the Caldera Cone is some sort of alloy.

Maybe an old printing plate could work?
 
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Seems like many of the "koner" are made of titanium which leads to my next question, where could one buy that?

Yes, that seems to be the case by the way, aluminum with some alloy. They call the material "aluminum alloy."
 
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Hello again! Just wondering if anyone knows where I can get really thin titanium?

Planning to make a windscreen like this for my alcohol burner :)

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