How To Roll Sheet Metal Edge

Bending your sheet metal with a vise 1 place your forms in your vise.

How to roll sheet metal edge.

Figure 1 1 shows that the length of the edge before the roll a is the same as the outermost area of the roll b and as the inner most part of the roll c. For the most part the easiest edge to roll is one on a straight line or one with a very slight outward curve. Watch this video and more in the solid edge sheet metal tutorials playlist. Using a plastic mallet or planishing hammer hammer down on the fold until it s bent over in a u shape.

Next we clamp our tool in a vice and hook the folded sheet metal over the tool. The benefits of working with beveltools. You can create the perfect uniform radius with these bevel heads. This is because the metal is simply being bent on one plane.

Rounding metal with the bevel heads from beveltools ensure a smooth and consistent rounded edge on sheet plate pipe and hole. I ve started by bending the sheet up 90 degrees where i want to roll to start. This is how easy it is to make a rounded edge on metal.