How To Roll Sheet Metal Cones

Cut out the cone template from your sheet metal using tin snips and file the edges smooth of any burrs of rough sections with your file.

How to roll sheet metal cones.

The curved steel cone calculator from chicago metal rolled products makes it easy to find the precise curved steel cone dimensions you need. To demonstrate the correct method of setting up pinch rolls. It allows you to determine either the size of raw material needed or the number of gore sections to fit on your available material. Roll the cone template into a cone shape starting at the wide end working toward the pivot point end.

Bending sheet metal is easier than you might first expect so do not be. There are many reasons that you might need to bend a cone from sheet metal. Fasten the cone into shape permanently with. View the cone instructions below to learn how to manually layout the flat pattern for a truncated cone in single or multiple gore sections.

By determining the length of the slanted side and the circumference at the wide end of your cone you can quickly and easily produce a cone exactly the size you want it to be out of a flat piece of sheet metal. Drill a few holes through the overlapping rectangular shape.