How To Fold Aluminum Sheet

When you re finished you ll see an l shaped fold running along 2 edges of the sheet with the elastic on the inside of the fold.

How to fold aluminum sheet.

Remove any unwanted corners. This is a bending tool made at home with scrap steel made for bending 3mm checker plate aluminium. Fold the sides in so the sheet is rectangular. The spacing between the two nuts and bolts determines the maximum width sheet that can be bent.

Cut a large piece of aluminum foil roughly an 18x12 inch sheet will do. This measurement will be necessary for calculating your bend allowance. We recommend using heavy duty aluminum foil to avoid tearing on the grill. Wondering which side of the aluminum foil is better than the other.

Arrange the sheet so the seams of the corners create a new corner. So if i fold it up and the sides are 200mm deep that would make it 800mm wide perfect. You can use a tape measure or ruler to measure the thickness of your sheet metal. Now slip the aluminium sheet between the two angle s and roll the bender forwards while exerting downward body weight pressure until the fold is 90 degrees.

As the apron comes up it will gently fold the sheet around the edge of the clamp bar at your chosen bend point. The two m10 bolts in the top are to clamp the sheet between the backstop and the base. Steve benson is a member and former chair of the precision sheet metal technology council of the fabricators manufacturers association international. I could get a 2 4m x 1 2m aluminium sheet for 90.

Go slowly sheet aluminum is very soft so you won t need to use much force at all. If your sheet metal is too thick you may need special machinery like a brake or a torch to bend your sheet into the desired shape. Continue pulling up on the handles until your sheet takes on the shape you want. Mark where you want your bends.

Then fold in the 2 sides on either side of that corner so the sheet has neat squared off edges. If you re using standard aluminum foil double the layers to be extra safe. When an operator sees aluminum 5052 or even better yet aluminum 3003 on the part prints it s probably going to be a much better day. The backstops bolt holes have a slot cut in them to allow the backstop to be slid back to allow for the thickness of the material to be bend.

See how the face of the backstop slopes backward slightly.