How To Roll Sheet Metal At Home

Mark your bend lines.

How to roll sheet metal at home. The roll forming process is capable of producing parts with tolerances as tight as 0 005 inches. Clamping your sheet metal to the straightedge is a must. Now that you know your bend allowance take your protractor and draw a clear line with your marker across the point at which you will bend your sheet metal. Monkeys spinning monkeys by kevin macleod.

Otherwise the sheet metal is almost certain to shift as you bend it resulting in a bad bend. Cut a length of string with a loop at one end and the other end held at the pivot mark. Roll forming is used to create very long sheet metal parts with typical widths of 1 20 inches and thicknesses of 0 004 0 125 inches. Draw a line onto your sheet metal the same length as you want the slanted edge of your cone to be.

To clamp efficiently lay your sheet metal on the top surface of your straightedge with the drawn line perfectly aligned with the outside edge of the sheet metal. However wider and thicker sheets can be formed some up to 5 ft. The sheetmetal is slid between the two bars and twisted back and forth to create a fold. Wide and 0 25 inches thick.

The string should be the. Mark one end of the line pivot and. How to roll a metal cone. In this video i show how to make a simple metal brake with a couple.

In this case the sheet of flat steel will be formed into a wheel disc.