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If it's alu it should be much easier than you think. I may be shot down for the idea, but don't discount brute force - using a large nail and hammer, onto a piece of wood underneath, depending on the thickness and your strength.
Edit: 1.5mm ... you can probably make the hole with your teeth.
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I have the relevant bits, trying to drill through this with my battery powered electric drill is going to be a futile and frustrating exercise?
Should be easy with some HSS drill bits.
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Has anyone drilled through aluminium sheet like this before with relative ease?
The problem is not in getting the drill through, it's in getting it to slow down when it hooks up on the back side. Drilling circular holes in thin sheet needs care and preferably a pillar drill. Clamp the sheet down to a backing board and be ready for the drill to get pulled away from you as it breaks through. Punching would be better, but you probably don't want to spend £30 on a tool
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To add my 2 cents to the multiple replies;
any self tapping wood screw will go through thin sheet alu, and if it's not for some kind of precision engineered work of art (which it doesn't seem to be) then I think you'll be able to live with the slightly ragged hole this might make on the inside... so I personally wouldn't bother fucking about with clamps or presses but maybe I'm a horrifically lazy cunt.
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I've just purchased a sheet of aluminium to act as a kick plate beneath some bike hanging hooks.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400887416706?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&var=670430341431&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
It will need holes drilled in the four corners to attach it to the wall, and I am guessing that, although I have the relevant bits, trying to drill through this with my battery powered electric drill is going to be a futile and frustrating exercise? Has anyone drilled through aluminium sheet like this before with relative ease? If not, can anyone recommend somewhere friendly in North/East London that has a drill press and that wouldn't mind doing it for me one Saturday?