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Author Message   Norman Tinkerer Username: Norman Post Number: 35 Registered: 03-2008 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 02:09 pm:    If you are looking for a very thin shim, aluminium cooking foil measures .01mm aluminium drinks can measures .05mm. You can make the hole by filing the end of a nail square and using it as a punch on a piece of end grain hardwood or a block of lead. Then cut the outside with a pair of sharp scissors.