How many of you practice sheet metal craft just to enjoy time away from the daily routine? This article describes how to make a sheet metal barn star. It’s a perfect time to take a break from the ...

A motor mount. A sturdy enclosure. A 43.7° bracket. The average hack requires at least one angled metal part, and the best tool to make one is still the good ol’ press brake. Bending parts requires a ...

In sheet-metal fabrication, parts are formed from metal sheets by punching, cutting, stamping, and bending. 3D CAD files are created using a host of different CAD packages and then converted into ...

Every major trade in the construction industry has them - Web sites, that is. There are thousands in the HVACR field, many crossing over into other fields, including the sheet metal trade. If you ask ...

When engineers need to make curved or bent pieces of sheet metal, they use company-written tables, rules of thumb, and guesstimates to determine the length of straight stock needed for bending into a ...