Bending A 90 In 18 Guage Sheet Metal Diy

When working with sheet metal one particularly useful piece of equipment is the brake.

Bending a 90 in 18 guage sheet metal diy.

Clamp the wood on top of the metal to the workbench. Subscribe my channel for more new videos. I hope you like this video. Generally i ll stick the piece to be bent in the vise and smack it around until it s bent.

I love working with metal but i ve always struggled to get perfect 90 bends. How to bend sheet metal without a brake in 4 different methods with minimal or homemade tools. Simple sheet metal brake. A brake is a device that allows you to bend a piece of sheet metal at a particular angle.

As an example if you want to bend 24 gauge sheet metal at a 90 angle the calculation would be. Next place the wood parallel and slightly behind the bending line. And you can use the same technique anytime you need a straight cut on aluminum or other light gauge sheet metal even steel. For one of the parts i wanted to bend a 16 gauge sheet of metal for a chip tray.

Clamp or hold a straightedge or square along the cutting marks and score a line with the tip of a sharp utility knife blade. If you want a sharp 90 bend tap along the crease with a mallet. Finally bend the sheet up by hand to the angle desired. In a previous video i built my own mobile welding tables.

Since it almost always bends crooked i end up rebending and generally just. The average hack requires at least one angled metal part and the best tool to make one is still the good ol press brake. Hello friends today i make a sheet metal bending tool. How to bend sheet metal without a brake.

Many different tools cut sheet metal and each has its own strengths and weaknesses. Then bend the sheet back and forth a few times to snap it.