How To Make A Sheet Metal Box With Ip Rating

I made a sheet metal box in class it is really simple mostly all you will need is a piece of metal the layout some shears a hammer a spot welder a sheet medal machine and a sand blaster or sand paper the struggles you will have mostly with this project is trying to make the folds line up to spot weld.

How to make a sheet metal box with ip rating.

This is a tutorial video on how to make a sheet metal tool box. A flat version of your box. This is a basic tool project. This is the first multiple part project my students work with in class that they will have to assemble together.

Ip ratings are defined by international standard iec 60529. 1 first you want to make an expanded template for your box out of cardboard paper etc. So mark out two 4 x 3 1 2 sections of sheet metal and cut it in the metal shear. They use a dual numbering system to define levels of sealing effectiveness of electrical enclosures against intrusion from foreign bodies tools dirt etc and moisture.

I like this project because it makes the students re. Bud industries offers the electronics industry a wide range of nema box selections formed from sheet metal steel that meet exacting nema standards including nema 4 4x ip65 enclosures ip67 enclosures and ip66 enclosures water tight environmentally secure and sturdy these nema rated enclosures are ideal for a wide variety of applications ranging from industrial equipment to medical devices. We start the box by making its sides. Sheet metal tool tray.

To make things easy for my students i designed our classroom box so it would be able to work on the size of a standard 8 5 x 11 piece of paper. It shows the layout cutting forming and three different options for welding the box togethe. But any ways lets get started. I used recycled sheet metal from computers and dvd players etc.

Creating a 22 gauge sheetmetal box from scratch. It is easier to cut off a 4 x 12 strip if you have a 12 x 12 sheet first then cut two 3 1 2 pieces from that strip. I have a graph paper drawing in the pics below but its not for this box 2 trace your template on to your piece of sheet metal as pictured i suggest 20 22 gauge steel 3 cut your piece into the same shape as template. The sides will be 3 x 3 but we add 1 2 tabs on three sides.

The patterns for a cardboard box will look very similar to what you need to plan out for the sheet metal box. The box i have my students create in class ends up being 5 5 x 2 x 3 5. Video tutorial includes cutting the sheetmetal template and bending the pieces on my 24 grizzly box pan b. This is the last sheet metal project i assign in my level one manufacturing class.