Bending 1 8 Thick Aluminum Sheet

How to bend sheet metal without a brake in 4 different methods with minimal or homemade tools.

Bending 1 8 thick aluminum sheet. The inside bend radius should be equal to the thickness of the material that you re forming. Material bend radii and minimum bend size charts please note. For die widths 0 5 to 1 in. You have fewer options and the included die angle goes from 90 to 88 and 85.

How to bend sheet metal without a brake. Here s a good rule of thumb for most materials. Why the different die angles for air bending. The bend radius you select may not be available if the geometry of the part will not allow us to bend with the specific tooling required to achieve that radius.

If you re bending 0 020 thick material use a 0 020 radius. Between 1 and 2 in your width options are reduced again and the included die angle closes even further from 78 to 73 and even less see figure 1. I had to bend some aluminum ears on mounting plate for my underwater camera and lights this is how i did it the wrong way a costly mistake and then how i d. Use the minimum bend dimension values in the charts below for your minimum closeness of cutout to a bend.