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Re:Folding Paper with a Hydraulic Press by emeraldd on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @09:52AM (#11721905)
It's interesting when he try's this with aluminum foil:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SY6PlbJz0Q

My guess, he's not so much folding it as reshaping and mixing the metal under intense pressure in much the same way you might work dough ... (yeah, bad analogy... )

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Re:Folding Paper with a Hydraulic Press by baldfat on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @10:45AM (#11722320)
> much the same way you might work dough

No its a good one. Reminds me of how they made "Damascus" Steele by pounding different layers together.

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Re:Folding Paper with a Hydraulic Press by Florin_Andrei on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @01:32PM (#11723808)
Exactly.

Too bad aluminum is too soft for this technique to provide any advantages.

...or perhaps that should actually be tested. Would this kind of processing change the mechanical properties of aluminum in any significant way?

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Re:Folding Paper with a Hydraulic Press by te_platt on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @01:37PM (#11723874)
Funny. He actually calls it Damascus Foil in the video.
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Re:Folding Paper with a Hydraulic Press by baldfat on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @02:38PM (#11724545)
I missed that! Maybe it was subconscious.
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Re:Folding Paper with a Hydraulic Press by mynameishere on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @02:27PM (#11724428)
You can see something like that being done here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WkWNDDrQO4&t=5m0s

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