How To Build A Cone Out Of Sheet Metal

Cut this circle out with your sheet metal shears.

How to build a cone out of sheet metal.

Drill a few holes through the overlapping rectangular shape. How to roll a metal cone. Roll the cone template into a cone shape starting at the wide end working toward the pivot point end. The pencil will make the circle and the slight indentation where the compass has.

Here is one way to make a cone from flat stock. The cone has a diameter at the top smaller than the diameter at the bottom and to accurately trace the shape onto sheet metal you need to make a template out of construction paper. How to bend a cone from sheet metal. Cut out the cone template from your sheet metal using tin snips and file the edges smooth of any burrs of rough sections with your file.

Mark one end of the line pivot and. I used aluminum sheet coil but you could use paper or any flat material. Draw a line onto your sheet metal the same length as you want the slanted edge of your cone to be. You can find cone calculators online.

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