How To Bend A Sheet Metal Toolbox

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.

How to bend a sheet metal toolbox.

First mark a bend line and place the sheet metal on the edge of your workbench. For dimension and more informat. Subscribe my channel for more new videos. Clamp the wood on top of the metal to the workbench.

Next place the wood parallel and slightly behind the bending line. Mark your bend lines. Kwandotechnic please like share and subscribe my ch. And finally bend the sheet up by hand to the angle desired.

I hope you like this video. Hello friends today i make a sheet metal bending tool. You can add bend lines to a flat face of a sheet metal part with a sketched bend feature. Using the edge of your workbench a length of wood two clamps and a mallet you can fashion a rudimentary bending brake.

This lets you dimension the bend line to other geometry. Mark a bend line and place the sheet metal on the edge of your bench. 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. 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.

Pull your handle again to the 180 degree position to better flatten your double layered portion of metal. 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. Next step is place the wood parallel and slightly behind the bending line. The inside bend radius should be equal to the thickness of the material that you re forming.

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. The hem tool adds a hem to your sheet metal part at a selected edge. Then use your bend allowance to draw your second bend line the intervening distance between your bend lines bend radius. If you re bending 0 020 thick material use a 0 020 radius.

Here s a good rule of thumb for most materials. Use a file to smoothen the profiles. Insert your metal into your bar folder up to your marked hem line. Kwando technic introduce how to homemade a metal pressing tool.

Clamp the wood on the top of the metal to the workbench.