Thread: Custom-corrugated sheet steel panels needed for my DIY project. Scotland / Britain

Bumpy Bumpy

Update please?
With all this rain we've been having, I hope you have a roof over your head by now?

I have a Solution for you Peter. Get a job so that you are earning money, then you can pay the one company that has said they can make them for you what they are worth.

check out Rigidized Metals in Buffalo NY. they dont have the pattern you are describing but they do have similar things and they know exactly how to do this.
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I left my suggestion before I looked at the links on this guy. so "never mind"

If you were willing to make a slight change to the material requirement, this product has the profile you are looking for, and it is readily available...

Originally Posted by Peter Dow

I have extracted the above image from the R-K Press Brake Dies Inc., Alsip, Illinois, USA, catalogue. PDF download - Right-click, Save target as ..



I had previously seen a diagram showing the principle of how such corrugating dies work.



Now I am pleased to find a company who do seem to be offering to custom-make the dies themselves from a few customer-provided parameters.

I wonder if there is a British company similarly capable of producing such corrugating dies to order?

I guess it will probably cost me too much for a 2.5 m length of such corrugating dies for my modest corrugating requirements.

I've found a video of a press brake fitted with a corrugation die set.

Originally Posted by Peter Dow

I've found a video of a press brake fitted with a corrugation die set

It`s taken you long enough.

WOW. This isn't locked?

I hear from a guy occasionally who has how to make his parts all figured out and if we do it his way it will be affordable. He even offered to drive down and run one of our machines "if that's what it took." The experience made me compose a form letter politely declining to quote such time-wasting crap. Bet this guy has seen a few of those...