How To Make A Box With A Sheet Metal Brake

Bend your metal at the tab lines up to 90 degrees.

How to make a box with a sheet metal brake.

Place your bent hems back under the teeth of your brake to press them down even further. This will stiffen the plate when a piece of metal is clamped in the brake. Bend your metal at the hem lines as far as your brake will allow. Please try again later.

Subscribe my channel for more new videos. If playback doesn t begin shortly try restarting your device. For dimension and more informat. Cut four strips of metal each long enough to reach from the bottom to the top of the box and wide enough to be bent in half and secured usually about an inch or so on each side so 2 3 inches total width.

In a box and pan brake the clamping bar includes several removable blocks which may be removed and rearranged to permit bending of restricted areas of a piece of sheet metal or of already partially formed pieces. Lay the 42 piece of 2 angle iron on top of the 7 wide top plate centering it between the two end angles in the center of the sheet with the angle up and weld it in place with at least one inch welds on each edge 8 inches 20 3 cm apart. Need to bend sheet metal. It s really easy to build a simple diy metal brake.

Need to bend sheet metal. Flatten your hems with a hammer on an anvil or solid surface. Subscribe to my channel. I hope you like this video.

Insert each strip lengthwise into the bending brake with half in and half out. This is a more complex tool that forms predetermined bends by clamping the workpiece between a matching punch and die. Hello friends today i make a sheet metal bending tool. Measure the height of the box.