How To Press Sheet Metal With Forms

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.

How to press sheet metal with forms.

This metal squeezing process commonly is referred to as the rolling process. The space between the final set of rollers determines the final metal thickness. Spinning sometimes called spin forming is a metal forming process used to form cylindrical parts by rotating a piece of sheet metal while forces are applied to one side. Now that your forms are placed you should clamp your sheet between your form blocks very firmly.

Take care to keep your bend line even with the guide angle of your forms. Follow along as i demonstrate how you can begin shaping metal with hand tools only. 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. How can you go about shaping metal with hand tools alone.

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