How To Bend A Sheet Metal Toolbox

Mark a bend line and place the sheet metal on the edge of your bench.

How to bend a sheet metal toolbox. First mark a bend line and place the sheet metal on the edge of your workbench. Kwando technic introduce how to homemade a metal pressing tool. Now that you know your bend allowance take your protractor and draw a clear line with your marker across the point at which you will bend your sheet metal. 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.

You can add bend lines to a flat face of a sheet metal part with a sketched bend feature. I hope you like this video. Use a file to smoothen the profiles. Mark your bend lines.

Insert your metal into your bar folder up to your marked hem line. 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. And finally bend the sheet up by hand to the angle desired.

Clamp the wood on the top of the metal to the workbench. The hem tool adds a hem to your sheet metal part at a selected edge. Subscribe my channel for more new videos. Hello friends today i make a sheet metal bending tool.

Clamp the wood on top of the metal to the workbench. Next place the wood parallel and slightly behind the bending line. If you re bending 0 020 thick material use a 0 020 radius. 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.

Next step is place the wood parallel and slightly behind the bending line. Then use your bend allowance to draw your second bend line the intervening distance between your bend lines bend radius. 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. For dimension and more informat.

Here s a good rule of thumb for most materials. 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. Method 1 bend to bend. This lets you dimension the bend line to other geometry.

Using the edge of your workbench a length of wood two clamps and a mallet you can fashion a rudimentary bending brake.