Dishing Sheet Metal

Other materials such as aluminum galvanized steel and stainless steel are also suitable for use in the blue valley tube flanger.

Dishing sheet metal.

Both of these latter methods take time and all three presuppose a handy wood source. Bending sheet metal by hand is a manageable task if the piece of sheet metal is small and thin enough to handle. A dishing and flanging line can form heads of any shape be it flat conical standard torispherical semielliptical or ellipsoidal. Material thicknesses range from 5 to 60 mm in the cold condition and up to 80 mm in the hot condition.

While sinking is a relatively fast method it results in stretching and therefore thinning the metal risking failure of the metal if it is sunk too far. Diameters range from less than 1 meter up to more than 8 m. Sinking also known as doming dishing or dapping is a metalworking technique whereby flat sheet metal is formed into a non flat object by hammering it into a concave indentation. Tube thickness from 1 16 1 5mm to 1 4 6mm can be flanged from mild steel.

Most frequently expensive sheet metal bending tools called brakes are used to bend sheet metal but you can also complete this task without one.