Clamp your sheet metal in your vise.
How to press sheet metal with forms.
Follow along as i demonstrate how you can begin shaping metal with hand tools only.
This action will force the flexane a rubber or urethane compound to push the sheet metal into the die.
Pump arm of hydraulic jack to advance lower platen which rests on the head screw of the jack to press the die and metal padded with flexane against upper platen as far as it will advance.
How can you go about shaping metal with hand tools alone.
Take care to keep your bend line even with the guide angle of your forms.
After the desired thickness is obtained the sheet metal then is rolled into a large coil.
Now that your forms are placed you should clamp your sheet between your form blocks very firmly.
The space between the final set of rollers determines the final metal thickness.
A sheet metal disc is rotated at high speeds while rollers press the sheet against a tool called a mandrel to form the shape of the desired part.