How To Make A Long Bend In Sheet Metal

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How to make a long bend in sheet metal.

Next put your wooden or metal form blocks in the vice and clamp your sheet of metal between the forms. As a result the wipe die also determines the bend s inner radius. It is important to make sure that the sheet is properly pushed onto the wipe die. Here s a good rule of thumb for most materials.

You need a sheet metal brake. To bend sheet metal in a vice start by marking a line on the metal where you want to bend it. Simple sheet metal bender using a hand roller clamps and plywood. Bend line shift bls the distance from the outside mold line to the original bend line on the flat pattern.

How much more will depend on the guage type of sheet how well the bending jig is clamped on and the care used when making the bend. Wipe bending or edge bending is another way to bend sheet metal edges. Hello friends today i make a sheet metal bending tool. In other words if you re bending 1 8 sheet use a tool with a 1 8 radius to form the inside of the bend.

If your sheet metal is long ask a friend to stabilize the part hanging out from the form blocks so it doesn t affect the bend. If you re bending 0 020 thick material use a 0 020 radius. I hope you like this video. The inside bend radius should be equal to the thickness of the material that you re forming.

This is used to calculate the back stop location when working off of a flat pattern. Subscribe my channel for more new videos. You can make a bend without creasing the metal the way decribed earlier but the radius will be slightly larger than if done with a brake.