How To Sheet Metal Box

Use the corner notcher to cut out any right angles.

How to sheet metal box.

Now you will need to secure the corners with smaller pieces of metal. Creating a 22 gauge sheetmetal box from scratch. The box i have my students create in class ends up being 5 5 x 2 x 3 5. A flat version of your box.

Dxf ready for metal fabricator shop. Follow simple steps to learn. 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. Lay the bottom on the ground and weld the two ends on first.

Lay out the panels for your box on the sheet metal using the measuring tape and the permanent marker. Video tutorial includes cutting the sheetmetal template and bending the pieces on my 24 grizzly box pan b. 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. 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.

Ihope you find this interesting and got inspired by this. The patterns for a cardboard box will look very similar to what you need to plan out for the sheet metal box. 1 first you want to make an expanded template for your box out of cardboard paper etc. Measure the height of the box.

This is a basic tool project. Step 2 use the cutting torch to cut out each panel and then grind the edges smooth with the hand held grinder.