How To Roll A Sheet Metal Edge

The benefits of working with beveltools.

How to roll a sheet metal edge.

Then use your bend allowance to draw your second bend line the intervening distance between your bend lines bend radius. Using simple hand tools to make a rolled wire edge to a piece of sheet steel. Mark your bend lines. Curling is different than a tear drop hem because in a curl the edge finishes inside itself where a hem leaves the initial edge exposed.

Curling sheet metal is the process of adding a hollow circular roll to the edge of the sheet. Metal shaping with lazze. Rounding metal with the bevel heads from beveltools ensure a smooth and consistent rounded edge on sheet plate pipe and hole. Once you ve got your u shape place your piece on a work table or anvil and finish the roll by tapping the edge down into the sheet for a simple flat fold or back into the roll for a thicker beaded roll.

Rolling a bead with a wire edge duration. I ve started by bending the sheet up 90 degrees where i want to roll to start. You ll need to be careful with your blows here as it s easy to ding the sheet metal and create divots and gouges. You can create the perfect uniform radius with these bevel heads.

This is how easy it is to make a rounded edge on metal.