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What equipment will I need to make custom metal body panels for kit vehicles?
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Planning on making kit planes and EVs. The planned thickness for the skin/panels is 1.5-2 mm(1/32-1/16in.) and the planned materials are carbon/carbon stainless steel and aluminum. As many of these will likely be low volume or even one-off, stamping is out of the question as even the cheapest presses for the size I need cost $25,000 or more without the dies. What equipment will I need? I want to make simple and compound curves, hard lines, soft lines, and rolled and flattened edges.
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