Making Louvered Sheet Metal

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Making louvered sheet metal.

As you can see it. This is the simplest way to make one of these presses and it works really well even on large panels. A great deal of my business is making that custom louvered panel in that special layout for your project. Each box represents a louvered zone on the metal and is divided by vertical lines that will be the louver opening s edge.

Homemade louver press macromachines shows you how he made a very simple louver press for punching louvers in 1 16 aluminum. The finishing block minimizes any tool marks and makes the louvers consistent. You can take your frustrations out on the finishing block. Drive the finishing block into the formed louver.

See all 25 photos. Give it a few real good wallops. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. 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.

The sides of the feature will not be slit. Check out exclusive features and details as well as this machine in action at. See this lowbuck louver press in action. When formed the metal is slit across the length of the louver and forced up into the die.

Perfect for low volume venting enclosure production prototyping air cooling systems fireplace shields or custom car renovators. A louver in sheet metal design is typically a formed feature made with a punch press incorporating a top and bottom die. Providing on site airstream restoration services. This forms a raised window in the part which is protected on three sides and open on the fourth.

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. Here is the finished pattern. From start to finish it takes about ten minutes per louver. I draw all new custom louvered panels free of charge on 3d cad for approval before any work is done.

This particular model can punch 2 1 2 or 1 1 4 round top hot rod louvers.