How To Bend Sheet ALUMINUM - DIY

In this video I present my approach to bend a sheet of aluminum with thickness 0.4mm. I have used two aluminum corner and two clamp to fix the sheet. For bending I have used a scrap bearing from my car. This bearing is actually a tensioning roller from the timing belt. I suppose it an be used any tipe of roller with a hard surface and posibility to hold with in hand.

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[steffenbreyer]

My old colleague would say: "That's not sheet metal, that's aluminum foil" 😂

[adarshprabhakaran]

What's the thickness for this sheet

[muntee]

Or just fix the lower angle to the bench, mount the upper angle via hinges, put handle on upper angle, clamp the sheet to the lower angle close enough to the edge that when the upper angle presses down/in against the edge that it makes a nice crisp radius bend.

The wheel works but its asking for trouble.

[Jakelol]

Can i bend 1mm aluminum this way or is that to thick?

[GarbauxM]

Would it be possible to ”bend” it just a little? Imagine like when you take a piece of paper in your hand Then you close your Fist with paper inside, it Will give the paper lots of ”wrinkles” or What to call Them. Depending on How hard you close the fist it Will have different results. But i mean to just close it a tiny bit to make the sheet ”wrinkled” would that be possible in any way?

before you think my question sound crazy… I love GAHR metallsculptures. But i would guess that they use machines and probably omg i forgot the Word i both English and swedish, ”well/dwell/weld.”!WELD? When you kind of tourch the metal? I LOVE the strings of metal that look like melted metall-wires/threads on top. And Then the color they POP into it… i would LOVE to create something simplare But i have no tools. I need to do it at home.