Design Sheet Metal Tool Box Plans

Make the five box panels using a jigsaw and a bosch t227d aluminum saw blade.

Design sheet metal tool box plans.

Crosscut the four supports from a length of l shaped aluminum. 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. The patterns for a cardboard box will look very similar to what you need to plan out for the sheet metal box. When laying out a simple box with tabs the tabs will meet the perpendicular face of the next side when folded up to 90 degrees so when you are folding your tabs measure in from the edge of the material the.

1 first you want to make an expanded template for your box out of cardboard paper etc. Use the corner notcher to cut out any right angles. A flat version of your box. It is easier to cut off a 4 x 12 strip if you have a 12 x 12 sheet first then cut two 3 1 2 pieces from that strip.

We start the box by making its sides. This is the first multiple part project my students work with in class that they will have to assemble together. 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. The box i have my students create in class ends up being 5 5 x 2 x 3 5.

I like this project because it makes the students re. Make the tray. The sides will be 3 x 3 but we add 1 2 tabs on three sides. This is the last sheet metal project i assign in my level one manufacturing class.

Bends have radius sheet has thickness and tools need space to access a bend.