How To Make Ribs In Sheet Metal With Hand Tools

Follow along as i demonstrate how you can begin shaping metal with hand tools only.

How to make ribs in sheet metal with hand tools. Material costs were cheap less than 50 and we picked up. Eet s look at the process of forming ribs of aluminum sheet. Wing ribs may be constructed of wood or aluminum and aluminum ribs may be either formed sheet or formed extrusion. Some of the more interesting combinations use a soft top die and a hard bottom one.

A common way to add strength to a sheet metal part is to add strengthening ribs. How can you go about shaping metal with hand tools alone. Hand operated bead rollers like this one form beads and ribs into sheet metal. Light planes such as the piper or interstate have the skeletal aluminum ribs while heavier aircraft like the bearhawk have ribs of formed sheet.

As the material is deformed the effective material thickness increases strengthening the material.