Homemade Sheet Metal Hand Brake

Next insert your sheet metal lining up the bend line with the edge of the top plate.

Homemade sheet metal hand brake.

I love working with metal but i ve always struggled to get perfect 90 bends. Hello friends today i make a sheet metal bending tool. Professional siding crews and heating ventilating air conditioning hvac technicians may work with metal brakes on a daily basis and can justify purchasing a metal brake as a legitimate cost of doing business. Long build your own brake to simplify working with sheet metal.

Adjust and do a tack weld at side of pivot and the top corner of angle iron point 1. This will stiffen the plate when a piece of metal is clamped in the brake. For dimension and more informat. Monkeys spinning monkeys by kevin macleod.

Pipe clamps 2 1 in. Twist a steel wire ø1 2mm around the pivot and place it at the gap on edge of bender. To open the brake first loosen the bolts then insert a large screwdriver between the top and bottom plate at either end. Build a sheet metal brake.

The axis of rotation center of bender to be inline to bending line. I m sure some bright person out there will probably come up with a more elegant way to do this. How to bend sheet metal without a brake. Simple sheet metal brake.

Lay the 42 piece of 2 angle iron on top of the 7 wide top plate centering it between the two end angles in the center of the sheet with the angle up and weld it in place with at least one inch welds on each edge 8 inches 20 3 cm apart. Pipes 2 pieces 1 ft long 4 x 4 1 piece 8 ft. Generally i ll stick the piece to be bent in the vise and smack it around until it s bent. I love building tools.

Simple sheet metal bender using a hand roller clamps and plywood. I needed better i saw a how to on making a metal brake and wanted to make a few modifications. I hope you like this video. There s been more than a few times i ve needed to bend metal and i ve resorted to clamping 2x4s together and using a hammer.

The most important thing on a sheet metal brake is. Since it almost always bends crooked i end up rebending and generally just. Kaka industrial w 1220a 12 inch box and pan brake solid construction high accuracy sheet metal box pan brake easy operation 20 gauges sheet metal brake 3 7 out of 5 stars 9 285 99 285.