Compound Curves In Sheet Metal

Most shops shy away from this kind of work but advanced metal fabrication is right there in our name.

Compound curves in sheet metal. Most frequently expensive sheet metal bending tools called brakes are used to bend sheet metal but you can also complete this task without one. Do you have a project which requires compound curves variable radius bends interfering parts or which has other complication. The corners would be the same radius 90 in 2 directions. The curved pieces would be a 6 radius 90 degrees by 2 to 4 ft long.

Creating compound curves in sheet metal is about changing the thickness of the metal. As the hammering sometimes makes very loud noise ear protectors are worn. Metals have an elastic limit that needs to be exceeded in order to get the plastic flow to occur to effect this thickness change. Common sense says that the graceful compound curves to be seen in them could hardly have been achieved by a sheet metal shop doing heating and ventilating ductwork.

The wheel pants often installed on volume produced light planes are made by fastening together right and left halves made of aluminum formed to shape by matching dies installed in a type of machine called a drop press. Sheet metal is metal formed by an industrial process into thin flat pieces. Thicknesses can vary significantly. Extremely thin sheets are considered foil or leaf and pieces thicker than 6 mm 0 25 in are considered.

It s the very of what we do and we do it very well. Bending sheet metal by hand is a manageable task if the piece of sheet metal is small and thin enough to handle. A foot operated control allows speed and power of strokes to be varied. Sheet metal is one of the fundamental forms used in metalworking and it can be cut and bent into a variety of shapes countless everyday objects are fabricated from sheet metal.