How To Bend Sheet Metal At Home

Simple sheet metal bender using a hand roller clamps and plywood.

How to bend sheet metal at home. To clamp efficiently lay your sheet metal on the top surface of your straightedge with the drawn line perfectly aligned with the outside edge of the sheet metal. Bending a brittle metal beyond its limits could cause the metal to snap and break. Otherwise the sheet metal is almost certain to shift as you bend it resulting in a bad bend. Clamping your sheet metal to the straightedge is a must.

If the metal is still getting scratched up you can either put on a few layers of masking tape or use wood blocks like 2 4 s or something to sandwich the part for bending as you tap away on it with a mallet the wood will be soft enough to not damage the surface as long as there aren t any metal shavings hard things on it. You will use the protractor to gauge the brake as you bend the metal little by little. 0 017453 x 90 x 0 020 0 33 x 0 024 0 0438558984 inch bend allowance keep in mind that some metals are more brittle than others. As an example if you want to bend 24 gauge sheet metal at a 90 angle the calculation would be.