How To Roll Sheet Metal At Home

Wide and 0 25 inches thick.

How to roll sheet metal at home.

Clamping your sheet metal to the straightedge is a must. Monkeys spinning monkeys by kevin macleod. In this video i show how to make a simple metal brake with a couple. Roll forming is used to create very long sheet metal parts with typical widths of 1 20 inches and thicknesses of 0 004 0 125 inches.

Then use your bend allowance to draw your second bend line the intervening distance between your bend lines bend radius. Draw a line onto your sheet metal the same length as you want the slanted edge of your cone to be. To clamp efficiently lay your sheet metal on the top surface of your straightedge with the drawn line perfectly aligned with the outside edge of the sheet metal. Cut a length of string with a loop at one end and the other end held at the pivot mark.

Mark your bend lines. How to roll a metal cone. The string should be the. However wider and thicker sheets can be formed some up to 5 ft.

Otherwise the sheet metal is almost certain to shift as you bend it resulting in a bad bend. 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 video shows how to create and form your own sheet metal parts with limited tooling. In this case the sheet of flat steel will be formed into a wheel disc.

Mark one end of the line pivot and.