How To Sheet Metal Box

Measure the height of the box.

How to sheet metal box.

Use the corner notcher to cut out any right angles. Step 2 use the cutting torch to cut out each panel and then grind the edges smooth with the hand held grinder. 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.

Lay the bottom on the ground and weld the two ends on first. This is quick simple tutorial for solidworks beginners starting working with sheet metal. Lay out the panels for your box on the sheet metal using the measuring tape and the permanent marker. I used recycled sheet metal from computers and dvd players etc.

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. The box i have my students create in class ends up being 5 5 x 2 x 3 5. 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. The patterns for a cardboard box will look very similar to what you need to plan out for the sheet metal box.

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. A flat version of your box. Follow simple steps to learn. Shielded metal arc welding with a borax flux covered rod normally.

Now you will need to secure the corners with smaller pieces of metal. This is a basic tool project.