How To Make Dimples In Sheet Metal

Tape the four corners down with painter s tape or masking tape.

How to make dimples in sheet metal.

Punch and dimple die tooling is common in shops for making holes in sheet metal or to add strength enhancing dimples. Most common in the current market for experimental aluminum homebuilt aircraft are the 100 and 120 dimple dies for the 30 or 1 8th hole size. Diy dimple dies no fancy tools. Place the sheet on a clean flat smooth steel block.

Wet metal causes tool rust and oxides on the metal will become embedded into the sheet during hammer texturing. From throttle stop garage a simple how to video for making dimples in sheet metal panels. Punch dimple die arbor kit h 9000 our arbors your punch dimple make the mitey mate jr 1685s a powerful sheet metal punch. After the hole is drilled insert the pilot bolt along with the male and female dies.

What this will do is create a dimple in sheet metal for a screw or bolt head in this case a 1 4 fastenor. This short tutorial shows how you can create a dimple in a sheet metal part that has a threaded hole in the end. Start off by drilling a hole or series of holes in the panel or bracket that you want to make using a drill bit that fits the pilot hole of the dimpling die. Center out the die in the hole.

Metal ready for hammer texturing should be clean oxide free annealed and bone dry. To make the tool i used and old 1 2drive x 5 8 socket as the receiver for the forming dies. Pic 1 shows the socket 1 4 bolt and washer i put the washer on the bolt and drive it into the socket pic 2 this will automatically center the bolt for welding.