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.

Follow along as i demonstrate how you can begin shaping metal with hand tools only. Each time the metal is rolled it gets thinner and thinner. How can you go about shaping metal with hand tools alone. 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.

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. This action will force the flexane a rubber or urethane compound to push the sheet metal into the die. Take care to keep your bend line even with the guide angle of your forms. The space between the final set of rollers determines the final metal thickness.

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.