Homemade Sheet Metal Brake Sheet Metal Bender

But you can use your welding table or bench a channel iron or a rectangular tube.

Homemade sheet metal brake sheet metal bender. Diy sheet metal brake and bender comment on how to build a sheet metal brake and bender 1 comments daveward says. It s pretty big so you can sta. Need to bend sheet metal. It works so well so i m surprised myself.

I love working with metal but i ve always struggled to get perfect 90 bends. Use a 3 8 20 round tap to thread the holes. Sheet metal when loading sheet metal in the brake to bend. 5 1 7 3 2 6 1 27720 3 drill 21 64 size holes in the bottom piece to be tapped 3 8 20 round threads.

Subscribe my channel for more new videos. It s really easy to build a simple diy metal brake. I hope you like this video. Generally i ll stick the piece to be bent in the vise and smack it around until it s bent.

Need to bend sheet metal. Simple sheet metal brake. Mar 07 2014 11 50 am. I think this is one of the best tools i ve been doing for a long time on my channel.

Be sure and tap straight down and work tap back and forth to create nice threads. For dimension and more informat. Diy sheet metal bender brake step 1. It s really easy to build a simple diy metal brake.

This will stiffen the plate when a piece of metal is clamped in the brake. Since it almost always bends crooked i end up rebending and generally just. Hello friends today i make a sheet metal bending tool. As long as we have collected all the needed materials.