How To Make A Sheet Metal Bending Brake

Place the brake onto the brake s bed.

How to make a sheet metal bending brake.

How to bend sheet metal without a brake in 4 different methods with minimal or homemade tools. How to bend sheet metal without a brake. At this point it became apparent that i had made a mistake in the original design of the brake. Don t over tighten the empty side.

Ideally the pivot point of the brake will lie perfectly inline with the bend line of the metal being bent. Align the metal to the guide and tighten the nuts down. Simple sheet metal bender using a hand roller clamps and plywood. Monkeys spinning monkeys by kevin macleod.

Loosen the nuts and slide your material into the break between the pieces of angle iron as shown in the second picture. Mount the brake on saw horse or your workbench with a few inches hanging over to allow the brake and slide a piece of sheet metal between the 7 and 14 plate snug the bolts down to clamp it and pull the pipe handle towards you to bend the metal. 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.

The hold down clamps down the metal to be bent. The angle should sit flat on the piece you are going to bend. Place another piece from the same sheet metal strip 0 50mm vertically onto the bed and between the brake and the first one.