How To Bend Stainless Steel Sheet By Hand

You can buy steel bars in the optimal length for hand bending from some online retailers or buy longer bars either online or from your local hardware store and cut off a piece of the desired length.

How to bend stainless steel sheet by hand.

I surreptitiously push on the section to determine if i can bend it. Then use your bend allowance to draw your second bend line the intervening distance between your bend lines bend radius. The slack between the wipe die and the punch plays an important role in getting a good result. Place a second bend mark on the edge of the stainless steel sheet parallel to the edge you just marked.

I buy steel tube in 20 feet sections. To cut the steel bar use a pair of bolt cutters preferably about 24 inches 60 cm long. This method tends to damage the tubing however. If you re bending 0 020 thick material use a 0 020 radius.

I can feel the tubing start to give and by sighting along the tube i can see how much the tube has bent. Wipe bending or edge bending is another way to bend sheet metal edges. I predicted that i needed about 3 feet of leverage to bend the thin wall square tube i found. Now that you know your bend allowance take your protractor and draw a clear line with your marker across the point at which you will bend your sheet metal.

Measure and mark the bend location along one edge of the stainless steel sheet with the tape measure and awl. It is important to make sure that the sheet is properly pushed onto the wipe die. As a result the wipe die also determines the bend s inner radius. Here s a good rule of thumb for most materials.

Step 2 put on your safety glasses. The inside bend radius should be equal to the thickness of the material that you re forming. Start at one end and slowly work down to the other.