How To Make A Sheet Metal Drain Pan

This is the first multiple part project my students work with in class that they will have to assemble together.

How to make a sheet metal drain pan.

Sheet metal tool tray. Drainage pans for sheet metal. I won t be making an exact replica but rather a basic v shaped pan from cut folded and welded sheet metal. This is the last sheet metal project i assign in my level one manufacturing class.

It would be nice to have a dimpling procedure in sheet metal similar to sheet metal punch tools that create feet or other punched forms that do not actually cut a hole in the sheet metal face. The video highlights the differences between the company s standard drip pan and drain pan selections. Bending the corner on drain pans. Given a starting face a dimple point and a dimple depth crease the face along the four crease lines to create a drainige pan or strengthening ribs.

Drip pans are normally made in a giant hydraulic press that forms a single piece of sheet metal into a shallow pan like shape.