How To Sheet Metal Box

Measure the height of the box.

How to sheet metal box.

Dxf ready for metal fabricator shop. Follow simple steps to learn. Video tutorial includes cutting the sheetmetal template and bending the pieces on my 24 grizzly box pan b. Ihope you find this interesting and got inspired by this.

I have a graph paper drawing in the pics below but its not for this box 2 trace your template on to your piece of sheet metal as pictured i suggest 20 22 gauge steel 3 cut your piece into the same shape as template. 1 first you want to make an expanded template for your box out of cardboard paper etc. Shielded metal arc welding with a borax flux covered rod normally. Lay the bottom on the ground and weld the two ends on first.

The patterns for a cardboard box will look very similar to what you need to plan out for the sheet metal box. To make things easy for my students i designed our classroom box so it would be able to work on the size of a standard 8 5 x 11 piece of paper. A flat version of your box. This is quick simple tutorial for solidworks beginners starting working with sheet metal.

Creating a 22 gauge sheetmetal box from scratch. Cut four strips of metal each long enough to reach from the bottom to the top of the box and wide enough to be bent in half and secured usually about an inch or so on each side so 2 3 inches total width. The box i have my students create in class ends up being 5 5 x 2 x 3 5. I used recycled sheet metal from computers and dvd players etc.

Use the corner notcher to cut out any right angles. This is a basic tool project.