How To Build A Cone Out Of Sheet Metal

Draw a line onto your sheet metal the same length as you want the slanted edge of your cone to be.

How to build a cone out of sheet metal.

Cut out the cone template from your sheet metal using tin snips and file the edges smooth of any burrs of rough sections with your file. The string should be the. Cut this circle out with your sheet metal shears. How to bend a cone from sheet metal.

Mark one end of the line pivot and. Cut a length of string with a loop at one end and the other end held at the pivot mark. I used aluminum sheet coil but you could use paper or any flat material. Roll the cone template into a cone shape starting at the wide end working toward the pivot point end.

You can find cone calculators online. The cone has a diameter at the top smaller than the diameter at the bottom and to accurately trace the shape onto sheet metal you need to make a template out of construction paper. How to roll a metal cone. Wear gloves for this since the edges of the metal can.

The pencil will make the circle and the slight indentation where the compass has.