Mild steel sheet metal work
Our sheet metal work projects cover a vast range of sizes and complexities for our customers and here are a few manufactured in September 2013
CNC bent mild steel brackets
Mild steel brackets
Here a complex mild steel sheet metal bracket has been stacked ready to be sent off for zinc plating and clear passivating. The brackets were CNC punched on our Trumpf 3000R CNC punch press and bent on one of our Trumpf 7036 CNC press brakes. These particular brackets are used for mounting pumps inside an electrical housing and are similar to many others that we produce every month in mild steel from 0.7mm to 4mm thick for a range of customers.
Mild steel U clamps
Mild steel U clamp brackets
These simple U clamp brackets have been bent up using one of our swan neck tooling sets on a CNC press brake. The tooling enables a very deep U shape to be wrapped around the tooling for the second bend and still be released after bending. We have sets of swan neck tooling for all 3 press brake ranges we have here so this detail can be achieved in small parts like these right up to 2.5M long sheet metal profiles. For more examples of sheet metal bend tooling please take a look at tooling tables.
Mild steel housings
Mild steel housings
Simple mild steel housing CNC punched form 0.9mm mild steel sheet. The 4 dimples have been pressed in during the CNC punching cycle using one of our standard up-form tools. All the CNC punch and CNC bend programs are saved to our system server and are ready for recall whenever the job repeats. This is a practice that we apply to every job no matter how small so that no time is wasted when a repeat batch of components is needed.