How To Shape Sheet Metal At Home

How can you go about shaping metal with hand tools alone.

How to shape sheet metal at home.

Follow along as i demonstrate how you can begin shaping metal with hand tools only. After all there are only four things you can do to metal. Clamp the sheet metal against your desk to hold it in place while you work. You will use the protractor to gauge the brake as you bend the metal little by little.

Step 1 determine the angle at which you want to brake the metal and mark it on the protractor. This ensures a cleaner cut and prevents metal chips from scratching the sheet while you cut. Monkeys spinning monkeys by kevin macleod. Mark your bend lines.

Apply masking tape to both sides of the sheet metal directly over the line you want to make. Tape the sheet metal and secure it in place. Cut it bend it shrink it and stretch it. Simple sheet metal bender using a hand roller clamps and plywood.

Clamp or hold a straightedge or square along the cutting marks and score a line with the tip of a sharp utility knife blade. Then use your bend allowance to draw your second bend line the intervening distance between your bend lines bend radius. With a combination of these manipulations you can create anything from flat sheet and you. And you can use the same technique anytime you need a straight cut on aluminum or other light gauge sheet metal even steel.