How To Bend A Sheet Metal Toolbox

This lets you dimension the bend line to other geometry.

How to bend a sheet metal toolbox.

For dimension and more informat. 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. Subscribe my channel for more new videos. If you re bending 0 020 thick material use a 0 020 radius.

I hope you like this video. 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. Clamp the wood on the top of the metal to the workbench. Then use your bend allowance to draw your second bend line the intervening distance between your bend lines bend radius.

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. Clamp the wood on top of the metal to the workbench. And finally bend the sheet up by hand to the angle desired. Insert your metal into your bar folder up to your marked hem line.

Here s a good rule of thumb for most materials. Mark a bend line and place the sheet metal on the edge of your bench. The hem tool adds a hem to your sheet metal part at a selected edge. You can create compound bends in sheet metal parts using the swept flange tool.

The inside bend radius should be equal to the thickness of the material that you re forming. You can add bend lines to a flat face of a sheet metal part with a sketched bend feature. 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. Next place the wood parallel and slightly behind the bending line.

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. First mark a bend line and place the sheet metal on the edge of your workbench. Next step is place the wood parallel and slightly behind the bending line. 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.

Pull your handle again to the 180 degree position to better flatten your double layered portion of metal. Kwando technic introduce how to homemade a metal pressing tool. Using the edge of your workbench a length of wood two clamps and a mallet you can fashion a rudimentary bending brake. Kwandotechnic please like share and subscribe my ch.

Method 1 bend to bend.