How To Make A Sheet Metal Brake

Then place the 11 metal piece through the bolts add a washer and wing nut tighten into place.

How to make a sheet metal brake.

In this video i show how to build a metal brake with a 72 inch working capacity. This setup is for larger pieces of metal sheet metal. Subscribe my channel for more new videos. Adjust and do a tack weld at side of pivot and the top corner of angle iron point 1.

Lay the 7 x42 piece on top of the 14 piece with the front edges. Subscribe to my channel. Fasten two of the 1 x 8 s to the top of the 2 x 4 rectangle by gluing and screwing them down. For dimension and more informat.

Need to bend sheet metal. It s really easy to build a simple diy metal brake. Twist a steel wire ø1 2mm around the pivot and place it at the gap on edge of bender. The angle iron with a welded threaded nut and the undrilled angle iron.

I love working with metal but i ve always struggled to get perfect 90 bends. It s really easy to build a simple diy metal brake. The most important thing on a sheet metal brake is. 1 4 inch 0 6 cm steel plate with bracing will enable.

Cut two 12 inch pieces out of one of the 2 x 4 s. Cut the angle iron and steel plate in sizes listed above making sure edges are square and straight. Put the nipple pipes in between the two angle irons and carefully weld the nipple pipes onto the steel rod do this alternately to form the hinge. The bending angle is what folds the metal.

You will want to drill two more 5 16 holes that are closer to the middle. Take care not to weld the pipes together. To make a hinge for your sheet metal brake align the two angle irons. The first step was cutting the components the 2x4 was cut to 48.

Build a sheet metal brake step 1. The unit as shown is approximately 82 tip to tip has a working surface he. I cut my scrap steel angle. After insert the carriage bolts into the holes and flip the brake back over.

Generally i ll stick the piece to be bent in the vise and smack it around until it s bent. Hello friends today i make a sheet metal bending tool. Simple sheet metal brake. I cut out 1 2 off each corner of the bending angle.

The axis of rotation center of bender to be inline to bending line. I hope you like this video. Need to bend sheet metal. Since it almost always bends crooked i end up rebending and generally just.