Making Louvered Sheet Metal

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

Making louvered sheet metal.

When formed the metal is slit across the length of the louver and forced up into the die. 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. Check out exclusive features and details as well as this machine in action at. Homemade louver press macromachines shows you how he made a very simple louver press for punching louvers in 1 16 aluminum.

Providing on site airstream restoration services. As you can see it. Make one louver punch or create panels in nearly any sheet metal. Give it a few real good wallops.

This is the simplest way to make one of these presses and it works really well even on large panels. 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. This forms a raised window in the part which is protected on three sides and open on the fourth. A louver in sheet metal design is typically a formed feature made with a punch press incorporating a top and bottom die.

Please contact us for a quote on custom louver applications larger or smaller panels aluminum panels and deck lids. You can take your frustrations out on the finishing block. Here is the finished pattern. See this lowbuck louver press in action.

See all 25 photos. 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. Use light taps and work the metal into the die evenly.

From start to finish it takes about ten minutes per louver. The sides of the feature will not be slit. Each box represents a louvered zone on the metal and is divided by vertical lines that will be the louver opening s edge. Airstream restoration car restoration aluminum sheet metal aluminium sheet custom metal fabrication power hammer car workshop metal forming metal working tools.

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