How To Roll Sheet Metal Cones

Rolling a metal cone out of sheet metal may be a little easier than you may think.

How to roll sheet metal cones.

Roll the cone template into a cone shape starting at the wide end working toward the pivot point end. Fasten the cone into shape permanently with. Drill a few holes through the overlapping rectangular shape. By determining the length of the slanted side and the circumference at the wide end of your cone you can quickly and easily produce a cone exactly the size you want it to be out of a flat piece of sheet metal.

There are many reasons that you might need to bend a cone from sheet metal. Cut out the cone template from your sheet metal using tin snips and file the edges smooth of any burrs of rough sections with your file. The curved steel cone calculator from chicago metal rolled products makes it easy to find the precise curved steel cone dimensions you need. View the cone instructions below to learn how to manually layout the flat pattern for a truncated cone in single or multiple gore sections.

Sheet metal cone calculator. It allows you to determine either the size of raw material needed or the number of gore sections to fit on your available material.