How To Roll Sheet Metal Without A Roller

Move back and forth length wise while rotating sheet around shaft.

How to roll sheet metal without a roller.

Or find a cone rolling machine. Roll bending inducing a curve into metal sheets. The sheet metal lab 260. This can be tricky since you don t want to crease the metal so you kind of have to slowly massage the metal around the piece of pipe.

Denotes a required field. The smallest possible diameter is 260 mm. We can roll bend half shells conical curves transitions and rings for you. Larger and thicker sheet metal is a problem to roll without a roller.

The diversity of shapes is very large. Which are getting scarce. Cone rolling on asm type mechanical plate rolls. Roller for roll forming a sheet metal strip roller for roll forming a sheet metal strip comprises roller body having roller base body and two circular side disks rotary axis linear bearing unit.

Roll bending at rime is carried out using a modern cnc 4 roll bending machine for bending metal sheets and plates to your wishes. Hammer straight down on sheet against shaft. Or you can cut the groove lay on the metal and then use a length of round rod to form the bead beat on it with a hammer or air hammer. In the past we ve presented metal shaping articles that showed the average inexperienced joe how to create just about anything from a flat sheet of steel provided he has access to the right tools.

For small jobs i have rolled the metal around an appropriate size piece of pipe including my drill press column. A hand held shot bag fastened to some kind of handle works well too for the mallet.