Folding Sheet Metal Box

Bending sheet metal by hand is a manageable task if the piece of sheet metal is small and thin enough to handle.

Folding sheet metal box.

Remove any unwanted corners. Bending is one of the most common sheet metal fabrication operations. To make things easy for my students i designed our classroom box so it would be able to work on the size of a standard 8 5 x 11 piece of paper. Further some sheet metal creations can be fabricated only by stamping or coining with dedicated tooling in a stamping press.

1 first you want to make an expanded template for your box out of cardboard paper etc. Most frequently expensive sheet metal bending tools called brakes are used to bend sheet metal but you can also complete this task without one. The metal folder is made from two right angle sections of metal. How to bend sheet metal without a brake.

The spacing between the two nuts and bolts determines the maximum width sheet that can be bent. Folding machines also known as folding brakes box brakes and pan brakes clamp the sheet metal workpiece on a stationary bed and swing the skirt of the brake like a leaf on a hinge to create the bent flange. Only 4 left in stock order soon. A flat version of your box.

I have a graph paper drawing in the pics below but its not for this box 2 trace your template on to your piece of sheet metal as pictured i suggest 20 22 gauge steel 3 cut your piece into the same shape as template. The patterns for a cardboard box will look very similar to what you need to plan out for the sheet metal box. Creating a 22 gauge sheetmetal box from scratch. Mark where you want your bends.

This is done through the application of force on a workpiece. Erie tools heavy duty 48 sheet metal pan and box brake with adjustable fingers 16 gauge. The box i have my students create in class ends up being 5 5 x 2 x 3 5. Video tutorial includes cutting the sheetmetal template and bending the pieces on my 24 grizzly box pan b.

Also known as press braking flanging die bending folding and edging this method is used to deform a material to an angular shape. My folder is made from aluminium but angle iron is okay. The force must exceed the material s yield strength to achieve a plastic deformation. Use the corner notcher to cut out any right angles.