Design Sheet Metal Tool Box Plans

Sheet metal tool tray.

Design sheet metal tool box plans.

The sides will be 3 x 3 but we add 1 2 tabs on three sides. 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. Sheet metal is a different creature in this respect. The patterns for a cardboard box will look very similar to what you need to plan out for the sheet metal box.

A flat version of your box. 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. 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. So mark out two 4 x 3 1 2 sections of sheet metal and cut it in the metal shear.

1 first you want to make an expanded template for your box out of cardboard paper etc. This is the first multiple part project my students work with in class that they will have to assemble together. I like this project because it makes the students re. Use the corner notcher to cut out any right angles.

We start the box by making its sides. Make the tray. Bends have radius sheet has thickness and tools need space to access a bend. Crosscut the four supports from a length of l shaped aluminum.

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.