cut flat sheet steel up to 3/16-inch, and pretty much retire your tin snips,” says Phil Heck, owner of Woodward Fab, which offers an amazing variety of metal-working tools perfect for farm shops.

We watch as he discovers the properties of sheet metal under the stress of pressing, how it wrinkles and folds, and how the tool needs careful design and the sheet needs to be securely clamped in ...

The metal working equipment can cut, bend, and roll thin sheet metal. In the Maker Lab we have a Woodward Fab throatless rotary shear (pictured), box and pan brake, and slip roll.

they can be used to produce precise bends for your DIY sheet metal projects. Harbor Freight advertises the Central Machinery 30-inch mountable brake as "a quality tool for working on furnace ...

Such machine tools are capable of working sheet metal and other stock into intricate shapes with as few setups as possible, and bring a level of power and precision that can’t be matched by an ...

While the tools and technology in the sheet metal trade continue to evolve, basic principles that are fundamental to working with sheet metal remain. Sheet Metal presents basic metalworking principles ...

Editor’s note: One of the country’s foremost wholesalers of sheet metal working machinery is Vorys Bros ... Often by changing the order of operations or mounting a tool differently a considerable ...

When drilling or punching a hole in sheet metal, you more or less cut out the entire hole at once. When cutting out a circle, one or sometimes two cutting tools are rotated about a center point to ...