Re: [VAL] Gauge or thickness of 1972 airstream globetrotter aluminum skin

["Tom" <thomm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is that on the "banana" skin as some call it?  If so, that's really *soft* 
aluminum and you may be able to straighten it out yourself without buying 
new skin.  I think.

The exterior skin is probably 2024-T3, alloy and 'T' is the heat treatment 
of that alloy.  Not sure, but makes sense to me if it is.

That banana skin is really soft and I wouldn't be surprised if it was made 
out of very basic, soft aluminum such as '0' or zero alloy.

'0' is used to make parts which are then heat treated to specs but it has 
it's own alloy mix in the metal.  Can't recall if there is something like 
2024-"0" alloy for instance where the "0" would show that it hasn't been 
heat treated to harden it yet.  Been away from that for a bit.

Tom