[TheForge] Speaking of sheet metal...

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

St Phlip;
If you take a couple of hefty pieces of angle iron, one over the 
other, with the sheet metal in between....then all you have to do 
is squeeze the angle irons together to get the sheet to bend.
An old truck jack is plenty strong...a stiff frame will contain 
the force..or put the whole contraption under something heavy 
like a truck.....Pete f

Saint Phlip wrote:
> I need to bend some sheet metal myself, but not only do I not have a
> brake, I wouldn't know how to use one if I did ;-)
> 
> What I need to do is to bend the bottom of a box out of sheet. Was
> thinking of cutting out the corners (except for tabs to lightly hold
> the thing together at the corners) then clamping the metal between a
> couple of heavy metal bars, then hammering away. Need a fairly crisp
> bend, about 90 degrees. Will this work? Anybody have any other ideas?
>