How To Roll Sheet Metal At Home

Draw a line onto your sheet metal the same length as you want the slanted edge of your cone to be.

How to roll sheet metal at home.

Mark your bend lines. 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. How to roll a metal cone. Monkeys spinning monkeys by kevin macleod.

Wide and 0 25 inches thick. However wider and thicker sheets can be formed some up to 5 ft. The string should be the. Otherwise the sheet metal is almost certain to shift as you bend it resulting in a bad bend.

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. In this case the sheet of flat steel will be formed into a wheel disc. Clamping your sheet metal to the straightedge is a must. This video shows how to create and form your own sheet metal parts with limited tooling.

In this video i show how to make a simple metal brake with a couple. Mark one end of the line pivot and. Cut a length of string with a loop at one end and the other end held at the pivot mark. Then use your bend allowance to draw your second bend line the intervening distance between your bend lines bend radius.

Simple sheet metal bender using a hand roller clamps and plywood.