How To Make A Sheet Metal Tool Chest

Insert your metal into your bar folder up to your marked hem line.

How to make a sheet metal tool chest.

Pull your handle. Measure 6 inches from each end and bend the metal 90 degrees using a sheet metal brake. Pull your handle to fold your metal over 180 degrees remove your now folded metal from the bar folder and place it back on the fold table with the fold facing up. Making a sheet metal tool tray screw tote duration.

Measure and mark your side lines from the long edge of your metal. Diy metal tool box duration. You ll also need the patterns on the following pages for laying out the cuts and bends. Cut your metal to size.

Run a line down each of the long edges 1 4 away from the edge. The order of operations for this step are as follows. This will create two 6 inch sides and an 8 inch metal bottom. Make a paper template with three lines each 1 away from each other.

Grumpy s workshop 18 004 views. You may have heard of him derek from malden. Bend the metal to make the bottom and sides of the toolbox. Use the shear to cut at that third line.

Make your own custom tool box foam inserts for 3 duration. Measure and mark your metal to your needed length and height. Measure and mark your hem lines from the long edge of your metal. All it takes to make the items shown here are some basic tools a pair of tin snips and the metal brake featured in shopnotes no.

A buddy of mine is having a birthday so i thought i d make him a personalized tool box. The order of operations for this step are as follows.