In case anyone is interested in experimenting with a piece of solid square stock, Onlinemetals.com has 1/8 square brass stock for $1.25 per foot: http://www.onlinemetals.com/merchant.cfm?pid=1336&step=4&showunits=inches No guarantees this will work. I'm just providing a source if someone wants to try it...At their own risk ; ) Steve __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com