How To Roll A Cone Shape In Sheet Metal

Video showing the processes involved in producing a steel cone.

How to roll a cone shape in sheet metal.

There are many different ways to lay out this pattern. Cut this circle out with your sheet metal shears. Cut out the cone template from your sheet metal using tin snips and file the edges smooth of any burrs of rough sections with your file. Roll the cone template into a cone shape starting at the wide end working toward the pivot point end.

Draw a circle on the sheet metal with a pencil compass. The pencil will make the circle and the slight indentation where the compass has. Draw a line onto your sheet metal the same length as you want the slanted edge of your cone to be. Wear gloves for this since the edges of the metal can.

The cone has a diameter at the top smaller than the diameter at the bottom and to accurately trace the shape onto sheet metal you need to make a template out of construction paper. Mark one end of the line pivot and. How to bend a cone from sheet metal. The string should be the.

It a job that requires a little skill and a lot of patience. How to roll a metal cone.