How To Sheet Metal Box

Creating a 22 gauge sheetmetal box from scratch.

How to sheet metal box.

The box i have my students create in class ends up being 5 5 x 2 x 3 5. 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. Shielded metal arc welding with a borax flux covered rod normally.

Use the corner notcher to cut out any right angles. A flat version of your box. Lay out the panels for your box on the sheet metal using the measuring tape and the permanent marker. Lay the bottom on the ground and weld the two ends on first.

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. Dxf ready for metal fabricator shop. 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. This is a basic tool project.

Follow simple steps to learn. Now you will need to secure the corners with smaller pieces of metal. The patterns for a cardboard box will look very similar to what you need to plan out for the sheet metal box. Step 2 use the cutting torch to cut out each panel and then grind the edges smooth with the hand held grinder.

I used recycled sheet metal from computers and dvd players etc. This is quick simple tutorial for solidworks beginners starting working with sheet metal.