How To Roll Sheet Metal At Home

This video shows how to create and form your own sheet metal parts with limited tooling.

How to roll sheet metal at home.

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. 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. The string should be the.

The sheetmetal is slid between the two bars and twisted back and forth to create a fold. Cut a length of string with a loop at one end and the other end held at the pivot mark. Simple sheet metal bender using a hand roller clamps and plywood. Otherwise the sheet metal is almost certain to shift as you bend it resulting in a bad bend.

Mark one end of the line pivot and. 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. The roll forming process is capable of producing parts with tolerances as tight as 0 005 inches. Mark your bend lines.

In this case the sheet of flat steel will be formed into a wheel disc. Monkeys spinning monkeys by kevin macleod. However wider and thicker sheets can be formed some up to 5 ft. Then use your bend allowance to draw your second bend line the intervening distance between your bend lines bend radius.

Clamping your sheet metal to the straightedge is a must.