How To Press Aluminium Sheet

Insert your aluminum sheet into the brake beneath the removable clamp bar.

How to press aluminium sheet. He is the president of asma llc and conducts fma s precision press brake certificate program which is held at locations across the country. Sheet aluminium can be cut without the need for a guillotine or tin snips which tend to deform the metal. It is very easy to make and use to use when press sheet metal. How can you go about shaping metal with hand tools alone.

Lift the clamp bar away from the rear of the brake frame and slide the sheet in perpendicularly to the direction you want to bend it. How to bend sheet metal without a brake. Make sure the bar is seated firmly inside the frame. Steve benson is a member and former chair of the precision sheet metal technology council of the fabricators manufacturers association.

Place the fracture line over the edge of a table and bend the overhang slightly downwards. Follow along as i demonstrate how you can begin shaping metal with hand tools only. Then place the clamp bar back down on top of the aluminum crosswise. This weakens the aluminium and creates a fracture line.