Dishing Sheet Metal

Tube lengths from 8 205 mm up to 60 1525 mm can be flanged with standard length upper channels.

Dishing sheet metal. Material thicknesses range from 5 to 60 mm in the cold condition and up to 80 mm in the hot condition. A dishing and flanging line can form heads of any shape be it flat conical standard torispherical semielliptical or ellipsoidal. Tube thickness from 1 16 1 5mm to 1 4 6mm can be flanged from mild steel. Other materials such as aluminum galvanized steel and stainless steel are also suitable for use in the blue valley tube flanger.

Most frequently expensive sheet metal bending tools called brakes are used to bend sheet metal but you can also complete this task without one. 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. Both of these latter methods take time and all three presuppose a handy wood source. In the past we ve presented metal shaping articles that showed the average inexperienced joe how to create just about anything from a flat sheet of steel provided he has access to the right tools.

Diameters range from less than 1 meter up to more than 8 m.