How To Sheet Metal Box

A flat version of your box.

How to sheet metal box.

Now you will need to secure the corners with smaller pieces of metal. The box i have my students create in class ends up being 5 5 x 2 x 3 5. This is a basic tool project. Step 2 use the cutting torch to cut out each panel and then grind the edges smooth with the hand held grinder.

Lay out the panels for your box on the sheet metal using the measuring tape and the permanent marker. Video tutorial includes cutting the sheetmetal template and bending the pieces on my 24 grizzly box pan b. Lay the bottom on the ground and weld the two ends on first. 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.

Ihope you find this interesting and got inspired by this. The patterns for a cardboard box will look very similar to what you need to plan out for the sheet metal box. I used recycled sheet metal from computers and dvd players etc. Dxf ready for metal fabricator shop.

1 first you want to make an expanded template for your box out of cardboard paper etc. Cut four strips of metal each long enough to reach from the bottom to the top of the box and wide enough to be bent in half and secured usually about an inch or so on each side so 2 3 inches total width. 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. Shielded metal arc welding with a borax flux covered rod normally.

Measure the height of the box. Creating a 22 gauge sheetmetal box from scratch.