Bending 1 8 Steel Sheet

Step 3 pull the bending handles of the bending leaf up to bend the stainless steel sheet.

Bending 1 8 steel sheet.

The bend radius you select may not be available if the geometry of the part will not allow us to bend with the specific tooling required to achieve that radius. Let s say i have a 2 mm thick sheet and i want to bend it. Material bend radii and minimum bend size charts please note. For most applications with stainless steel or aluminum you can get away with a zero radius bend on anything under 0 050 thick.

To keep it simple i also use a 2 mm inside radius. How to bend sheet metal without a brake. In other words if you re bending 1 8 sheet use a tool with a 1 8 radius to form the inside of the bend. If you re bending 0 020 thick material use a 0 020 radius.

I can now see that the minimum flange length is 8 5 mm for such a bend so i have to keep it in mind when designing. It just won t really be at maximum strength. The shop uses 5052 h32 and 6061 t6 so i am going with 5052 since that will be better for bending and still be strong enough to do what i need it to. Slide the marked stainless steel sheet under the clamping leaf align the two center marked bending locations with the pivot line of the lower bending leaf and pull the clamping leaf handles toward you to lock the stainless steel sheet in position.