How To Make A Funnel Out Of Sheet Metal

Cut around the circle with tin snips and smooth the cut edges with sandpaper to remove.

How to make a funnel out of sheet metal. How to make a sheet metal funnel. When i started drawing it out in autocad i realized that i could make a half circle with a 12 diameter hemisphere for the bottom and a 22 5 for the top. Draw a circle on the sheet metal with a pencil compass. Roll the cone template into a cone shape starting at the wide end working toward the pivot point end.

The tapered end of the cone should have an opening approximately. Cut out the cone template from your sheet metal using tin snips and file the edges smooth of any burrs of rough sections with your file. I needed a funnel with a 6 inch bottom opening and a 22 5 inch top opening to put in 55 gallon barrel for my deer feeder. Mark an 8 inch circle on a piece of sheet metal.

Overlap the edge of the metal to form a cone.