How To Make A Homemade Sheet Metal Brake

Need to bend sheet metal.

How to make a homemade sheet metal brake.

This will be used to form the smooth surface beneath the hold down clamp. Need to bend sheet metal. Cut two 12 inch pieces out of one of the 2 x 4 s. Take care not to weld the pipes together.

The hold down clamps down the metal to be bent. The 2 plate was cut to 2 in length. Subscribe my channel for more new videos. But you can use your welding table or bench a channel iron or a rectangular tube.

Select materials that will be strong enough for your needs. The angle iron with a welded threaded nut and the undrilled angle iron. To make a hinge for your sheet metal brake align the two angle irons. Hello friends today i make a sheet metal bending tool.

Subscribe to my channel. All of the metal and wood bits were first cut to length. 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. I hope you like this video.

It s really easy to build a simple diy metal brake. Diy sheet metal bender brake step 1. Fasten two of the 1 x 8 s to the top of the 2 x 4 rectangle by gluing and screwing them down. 1 4 inch 0 6 cm steel plate with bracing will enable.

As long as we have collected all the needed materials. For dimension and more informat. Calculate the desirable full width of sheet metal brake. The 1 5 angle was cut in half to make two 2 pieces.

How to make your own sheet metal brake from wood step 1. Lay the 7 x42 piece on top of the 14 piece with the front edges. This will be used to make the bending plate as well as the hold down clamp. It s really easy to build a simple diy metal brake.

I did a 1 8 hole first then the 5 16 hole. I used a file to create a flat spot in the hold down angle used a metal punch to create a start for the drill bit and drilled a hole for the carriage bolts.