Design Sheet Metal Tool Box Plans

So mark out two 4 x 3 1 2 sections of sheet metal and cut it in the metal shear.

Design sheet metal tool box plans.

A flat version of your box. Use the corner notcher to cut out any right angles. 1 first you want to make an expanded template for your box out of cardboard paper etc. Crosscut the four supports from a length of l shaped aluminum.

Bends have radius sheet has thickness and tools need space to access a bend. I have a graph paper drawing in the pics below but its not for this box 2 trace your template on to your piece of sheet metal as pictured i suggest 20 22 gauge steel 3 cut your piece into the same shape as template. Make the tray. Make the five box panels using a jigsaw and a bosch t227d aluminum saw blade.

The sides will be 3 x 3 but we add 1 2 tabs on three sides. The patterns for a cardboard box will look very similar to what you need to plan out for the sheet metal box. Sheet metal tool tray. We start the box by making its sides.

The box i have my students create in class ends up being 5 5 x 2 x 3 5. To make things easy for my students i designed our classroom box so it would be able to work on the size of a standard 8 5 x 11 piece of paper. This is the first multiple part project my students work with in class that they will have to assemble together. I like this project because it makes the students re.

Sheet metal is a different creature in this respect.