This is the 2nd episode of our Metal Working for Beginners series where we show how to bend 1/8th inch and 3/16 inch steel plate into benches without needing expensive specialized tools. We use 2x4s ...

When engineers need to make curved or bent pieces of sheet metal, they use company-written tables, rules of thumb, and guesstimates to determine the length of straight stock needed for bending into a ...

For auto-body structures, thin walled hydroformed and laser beam welded hollow steel sheet sections are recommended as a replacement for mainly spot-welded box-shape components. Such components have ...