How To Press Sheet Metal With Forms

This metal squeezing process commonly is referred to as the rolling process.

How to press sheet metal with forms. How can you go about shaping metal with hand tools alone. Now that your forms are placed you should clamp your sheet between your form blocks very firmly. Pump arm of hydraulic jack to advance lower platen which rests on the head screw of the jack to press the die and metal padded with flexane against upper platen as far as it will advance. Follow along as i demonstrate how you can begin shaping metal with hand tools only.

A sheet metal disc is rotated at high speeds while rollers press the sheet against a tool called a mandrel to form the shape of the desired part. Take care to keep your bend line even with the guide angle of your forms. After the desired thickness is obtained the sheet metal then is rolled into a large coil. The space between the final set of rollers determines the final metal thickness.

Each time the metal is rolled it gets thinner and thinner.