Homemade Sheet Metal Brake Sheet Metal Bender

Diy sheet metal brake and bender comment on how to build a sheet metal brake and bender 1 comments daveward says.

Homemade sheet metal brake sheet metal bender.

5 1 7 3 2 6 1 27720 3 drill 21 64 size holes in the bottom piece to be tapped 3 8 20 round threads. It s really easy to build a simple diy metal brake. Subscribe to my channel. Use a 3 8 20 round tap to thread the holes.

Be sure and tap straight down and work tap back and forth to create nice threads. Simple sheet metal brake. Subscribe my channel for more new videos. Diy sheet metal bender brake step 1.

Lay the 42 piece of 2 angle iron on top of the 7 wide top plate centering it between the two end angles in the center of the sheet with the angle up and weld it in place with at least one inch welds on each edge 8 inches 20 3 cm apart. Hello friends today i make a sheet metal bending tool. Need to bend sheet metal. I love working with metal but i ve always struggled to get perfect 90 bends.

Since it almost always bends crooked i end up rebending and generally just. Calculate the desirable full width of sheet metal brake. Generally i ll stick the piece to be bent in the vise and smack it around until it s bent. Mar 07 2014 11 50 am.

Sheet metal when loading sheet metal in the brake to bend. It s really easy to build a simple diy metal brake. I hope you like this video. I think this is one of the best tools i ve been doing for a long time on my channel.

This will stiffen the plate when a piece of metal is clamped in the brake. Need to bend sheet metal. For dimension and more informat. But you can use your welding table or bench a channel iron or a rectangular tube.