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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Working with metal can be dangerous ... where welding takes place — and training for workers are essential. Sheet metal contractors must be near dangerous heavy machinery. If tools aren’t used ...