How To Build A Cone Out Of Sheet Metal

I used aluminum sheet coil but you could use paper or any flat material.

How to build a cone out of sheet metal.

Cut out the cone template from your sheet metal using tin snips and file the edges smooth of any burrs of rough sections with your file. Cut this circle out with your sheet metal shears. You can find cone calculators online. Drill a few holes through the overlapping rectangular shape.

Draw a line onto your sheet metal the same length as you want the slanted edge of your cone to be. Cut a length of string with a loop at one end and the other end held at the pivot mark. Draw a circle on the sheet metal with a pencil compass. Roll the cone template into a cone shape starting at the wide end working toward the pivot point end.

Here is one way to make a cone from flat stock. Wear gloves for this since the edges of the metal can. Mark one end of the line pivot and. The string should be the.

How to roll a metal cone.