Bending Sheet Metal With A Shop Press

The eastwood press brake attachment is a precision engineered metal working tool designed to produce accurate variable length bends in angles up to 90 in mild steel and aluminum in widths up to 12 and thicknesses up to 3 8.

Bending sheet metal with a shop press.

3 16 x 12 length. Brittle materials may require v dies in the 8x to 12x range. Actually the term is bending or forming metal in a press brake. Attaches to most standard 12 or 20 ton hydraulic shop presses.

Reasonable tolerancing for press brake bending realistic tolerancing can have a profound effect on bending throughput. Bending principle of sheet metal. 5 16 x 6 length bending length. 12 max attach to most standard 12 or 20 ton hydraulic shop press dim l x w x h in.

14 1 2 x 7 1 2 x 8 estimated. Theoretically it shouldn t be complicated. The term you are refering to is called braking metal or a metal brake. To define the bend region and reduce the force required to bend a part out of sheet metal down to something you can handle without a brake press slots can be cut at the bending line to selectively.

The woodward fab electric hydraulic press has a sheet metal capacity of 10 tons. During bending the sheet metal must bridge fully across the v die see figure 2. Bends up to 90 angles. Sheet metal and plate bending looks simple enough but the truth is that it s often the most complicated process on many metal fabrication shop floors.

The hydraulic rams makes these presses easy to operate. The deformation of these compressions and stretches is greatest on the surface of the material. Typical products that are made like this are boxes such as electrical enclosures and rectangular ductwork. The hydraulic rams makes these presses easy to operate.

Commonly used equipment include box and pan brakes brake presses and other specialized machine presses. 01 23 2007 11 12 am 12. Bending is a manufacturing process that produces a v shape u shape or channel shape along a straight axis in ductile materials most commonly sheet metal. In the fab shop the v die width in the press brake limits the size of the flange that can be bent.

Press brake bender attachment bending thickness may vary. Weight 34 lbs see more product details. 3 16 5mm 4 gauge.