How To Make A Sheet Metal Drain Pan

Given a starting face a dimple point and a dimple depth crease the face along the four crease lines to create a drainige pan or strengthening ribs.

How to make a sheet metal drain pan.

Drip pans are normally made in a giant hydraulic press that forms a single piece of sheet metal into a shallow pan like shape. I like this project because it makes the students re. It would be nice to have a dimpling procedure in sheet metal similar to sheet metal punch tools that create feet or other punched forms that do not actually cut a hole in the sheet metal face. This is the last sheet metal project i assign in my level one manufacturing class.

This is the first multiple part project my students work with in class that they will have to assemble together. Sheet metal tool tray. I won t be making an exact replica but rather a basic v shaped pan from cut folded and welded sheet metal. Bending the corner on drain pans.

Drainage pans for sheet metal.