Design Sheet Metal Tool Box Plans

A flat version of your box.

Design sheet metal tool box plans.

We start the box by making its sides. Bends have radius sheet has thickness and tools need space to access a bend. The sides will be 3 x 3 but we add 1 2 tabs on three sides. The patterns for a cardboard box will look very similar to what you need to plan out for the sheet metal box.

So mark out two 4 x 3 1 2 sections of sheet metal and cut it in the metal shear. I like this project because it makes the students re. Crosscut the four supports from a length of l shaped aluminum. The box i have my students create in class ends up being 5 5 x 2 x 3 5.

1 first you want to make an expanded template for your box out of cardboard paper etc. Sheet metal tool tray. This is the first multiple part project my students work with in class that they will have to assemble together. Make the five box panels using a jigsaw and a bosch t227d aluminum saw blade.

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. Sheet metal is a different creature in this respect. 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. This is the last sheet metal project i assign in my level one manufacturing class.

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.