How To Make A Long Bend In Sheet Metal

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How to make a long bend in sheet metal.

Bend line shift bls the distance from the outside mold line to the original bend line on the flat pattern. Monkeys spinning monkeys by kevin macleod. Next put your wooden or metal form blocks in the vice and clamp your sheet of metal between the forms. Simple sheet metal bender using a hand roller clamps and plywood.

As a result the wipe die also determines the bend s inner radius. This is used to calculate the back stop location when working off of a flat pattern. It is important to make sure that the sheet is properly pushed onto the wipe die. If your sheet metal is long ask a friend to stabilize the part hanging out from the form blocks so it doesn t affect the bend.

How much more will depend on the guage type of sheet how well the bending jig is clamped on and the care used when making the bend. To bend sheet metal in a vice start by marking a line on the metal where you want to bend it. In other words if you re bending 1 8 sheet use a tool with a 1 8 radius to form the inside of the bend. You can make a bend without creasing the metal the way decribed earlier but the radius will be slightly larger than if done with a brake.

Here s a good rule of thumb for most materials. Wipe bending or edge bending is another way to bend sheet metal edges. The slack between the wipe die and the punch plays an important role in getting a good result. I hope you like this video.

Subscribe my channel for more new videos. The inside bend radius should be equal to the thickness of the material that you re forming. Hello friends today i make a sheet metal bending tool.