Luckily, [Rupert] sent in a great tutorial on bending aluminum sheets for enclosures. To make his press brake ... [Rupert] picked up is scoring the sheet metal on the inside of a future bend.

but bending a piece of metal with precision is difficult without a tool for it. That said, where a maker faces a problem, building a solution swiftly follows; and — if you lack a metal brake ...

FIGURE 2. The press brake overbends to the bending angle, then releases pressure and allows the bend to relax and spring back to the bent angle. The bend radius relaxes too—not by much, but enough to ...

Want to hem sheet metal quickly & easily in your press brake? In this video, Wilson Tool shows a time-saving, spring-loaded 2-stage hemming die that completes a hem in just two hits. See how this ...