Making Louvered Sheet Metal

The sides of the feature will not be slit.

Making louvered sheet metal.

Use light taps and work the metal into the die evenly. The finishing block minimizes any tool marks and makes the louvers consistent. Our stock louver tool is designed to fit into a north american style press brake and produce a louver 3 x5 8 at 1 4 high. This particular model can punch 2 1 2 or 1 1 4 round top hot rod louvers.

Make one louver punch or create panels in nearly any sheet metal. From start to finish it takes about ten minutes per louver. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. A louver in sheet metal design is typically a formed feature made with a punch press incorporating a top and bottom die.

This forms a raised window in the part which is protected on three sides and open on the fourth. This is the simplest way to make one of these presses and it works really well even on large panels. Drive the finishing block into the formed louver. A great deal of my business is making that custom louvered panel in that special layout for your project.

When formed the metal is slit across the length of the louver and forced up into the die. Give it a few real good wallops. As you can see it. Check out exclusive features and details as well as this machine in action at.

Airstream restoration car restoration aluminum sheet metal aluminium sheet custom metal fabrication power hammer car workshop metal forming metal working tools. Please contact us for a quote on custom louver applications larger or smaller panels aluminum panels and deck lids. Here is the finished pattern. You can take your frustrations out on the finishing block.

Each box represents a louvered zone on the metal and is divided by vertical lines that will be the louver opening s edge. See all 25 photos. Perfect for low volume venting enclosure production prototyping air cooling systems fireplace shields or custom car renovators. While small medium and large sheets are pretty much always in stock at every sheet metal fabricator s warehouse oversized sheets after all most sheet metal fabricators do not also offer stamping hydronic heat assemblies louvers wall sleeves room enclosures and control components.

I draw all new custom louvered panels free of charge on 3d cad for approval before any work is done.