How To Bend A Sheet Metal Toolbox

Here s a good rule of thumb for most materials.

How to bend a sheet metal toolbox.

First mark a bend line and place the sheet metal on the edge of your workbench. Clamp the wood on the top of the metal to the workbench. You can create compound bends in sheet metal parts using the swept flange tool. Mark your bend lines.

For dimension and more informat. Pull your handle to fold your metal over 180 degrees remove your now folded metal from the bar folder and place it back on the fold table with the fold facing up. If you re bending 0 020 thick material use a 0 020 radius. Next place the wood parallel and slightly behind the bending line.

And finally bend the sheet up by hand to the angle desired. Next step is place the wood parallel and slightly behind the bending line. Kwandotechnic please like share and subscribe my ch. This lets you dimension the bend line to other geometry.

Use a clamp and a piece of steel and create a stop at left side of angle iron so as your stock steel to can t move to the left. Clamp the wood on top of the metal to the workbench. Subscribe my channel for more new videos. Kwando technic introduce how to homemade a metal pressing tool.

Then use your bend allowance to draw your second bend line the intervening distance between your bend lines bend radius. Mark a bend line and place the sheet metal on the edge of your bench. This is the traditional method and consists in bending the piece with a standard press brake punch and die and then turning it over to bend the other side see the video at the end of this post. Insert your metal into your bar folder up to your marked hem line.

Using the edge of your workbench a length of wood two clamps and a mallet you can fashion a rudimentary bending brake. I hope you like this video. The inside bend radius should be equal to the thickness of the material that you re forming. Using the end of the angle iron as guide slide the cutting disk over it and rotating the stock steel by hand do the cut the cutting disk is not needing to pass across.

Pull your handle again to the 180 degree position to better flatten your double layered portion of metal. Use a file to smoothen the profiles. In other words if you re bending 1 8 sheet use a tool with a 1 8 radius to form the inside of the bend. Method 1 bend to bend.

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