Small improvement to the Warco MiniFormit

This post isn't really about modelling but about a small item that I made on the mill today to improve my MiniFormit Guillotine/rollers.

When it came it had a really short infeed guide for the Guillotine which made it really difficult to cut pieces of sheet square. Before we moved I made a replacement from a small offcut strip of aluminium profile bought from B&Q but the problem with it was that it was produced by rolling and so none of the edges were really square and so sheet of the thicknesses we tend to use for model making slid under the bottom edge, again making it very difficult to cut square. I ultimately got around this by having a flat stainless square permanently clamped to the guillotine's table.

Fast forward to yesterday and I went along to Wickes and bought a metre length of mild steel bar 4mmx 35mm this cost just under £10 but was infinitely cheaper than buying from the likes of eBay where the postage/fees etc. put short pieces into similar price brackets.
The Wickes offering is also rolled so needed the rounded edges squaring up on all six faces with the mill.

I now have a guide that is square to the table and flush so that thin sheet won't slip under it when lining up for cutting.







I could have made it from much smaller material but I reasoned that buying the size that I did will allow me to make smaller items should I need it whereas if I had bought a small gauge I couldn't have made bigger items from it. The metre length should last me a few years making little bits and pieces as I need them.