How To Roll Sheet Metal Into A Tube

When sheet metal is inserted between two such rolls the urethane wraps the sheet metal tightly against the steel roll.

How to roll sheet metal into a tube. Essentially you should calculate the centerline arc. Roll the template into a cone shape overlapping the sheet metal by 1 2 inch then drill a few holes along the seam and seal it closed by placing rivets in the drilled holes. We do tube bending and tube rolling in steel aluminum and stainless steel. Learn autodesk inventor sheet metal tutorial how to create cylinder object by using contour roll command check it out.

Tip add a bead of silicone sealant along the overlapping edge if you require the cone to be water tight. To develop the blank flat length for a cylinder rolled from sheet or plate is quite simple. A segment of this top roll is pushed into the urethane bottom roll and this deflecting volume of urethane functions the same as hydraulic fluid in a hydroforming process exerting very high pressures against the steel roll. Forming radius bends in sheet steel would normally be done with slip rolls but acceptable work for a lot of jobs can be done using a piece of pipe.

If you want to roll sheet into tube and don t have a slip roller or don t want to buy one then you could always make a sheet metal roller first. Outside diameter thickness x 3 1416 length of plate required inside diameter thickness x 3. This is 2 x 2 with a 25 wall thickness stainless square tube rolled into complete metal tube rings with an inside radius of 6 inches.