Bending 22 Gauge Spring Steel Sheet

The gauge number 18.

Bending 22 gauge spring steel sheet.

For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter. A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters. 22 gauge 0 030 0 76 mm. I ve tried bending it as is it just snapped.

I also tried annealing with a band blade welder which really didn t work it just made the steel terribly brittle and weak. The steel is 1095 spring steel it s 032 thick by 200 wide. 1095 spring steel sheet blue temper ams 5122 sae 1095 aisi 1095 aisi 1095 0 002 thick 3 width 50 length. I tried annealing the ends with an oxy acetylene torch.

0 017453 x 90 x 0 020 0 33 x 0 024 0 0438558984 inch bend allowance keep in mind that some metals are more brittle than others. It will rust in a jiffy though so some care must be given when wetting the wooden side of a guitar while bending. M d building products 56066 1 feet by 2 feet 22 ga weldable steel sheet 4 6 out of 5. As an example if you want to bend 24 gauge sheet metal at a 90 angle the calculation would be.

Gauges are neither standard nor metric and the values are independent of those measurement systems. Category thickness minimum bend bend radius. One bend out of four worked there.