How To Make A Box With A Sheet Metal Brake

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.

How to make a box with a sheet metal brake.

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. Bend your metal at the hem lines as far as your brake will allow. This will stiffen the plate when a piece of metal is clamped in the brake. 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.

It s really easy to build a simple diy metal brake. Flatten your hems with a hammer on an anvil or solid surface. It s really easy to build a simple diy metal brake. I hope you like this video.

Place your bent hems back under the teeth of your brake to press them down even further. After bending a box or pan form is then completed by screw solder weld rivet or other metal fixing process. Subscribe to my channel. Need to bend sheet metal.

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Need to bend sheet metal. Subscribe my channel for more new videos. Bend your metal at the tab lines up to 90 degrees. Insert each strip lengthwise into the bending brake with half in and half out.