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If you have to deal with from time to time or permanently work with metal, then to drag a heavy sheet of metal is all the same necessary. This is Metal You do download, and when delivered to you at the station or in a garage, then there is need to podsuchat sleeves!
In today's article I want to show you a few ways on how I move heavy sheets of metal.
Here it is the most mass-standard sheet metal, sizes 1250 to 2500mm, such sheets are by weight, based on the thickness
- 1.5 mm-37 kg
- 2 mm-49 kg
- 3 mm-74 kg.
As you can see, the most massive and popular metal sheets are quite heavy. Naturally, in order to move them, you need some auxiliary instrument.
For example, here are unpretentious adapted to carry a sheet of metal together, the elementary design, and as can be seen in these pictures, they can be made from any available material.
Well, if you have to move the sheet one, how then to be? You can of course take it with both hands and pull over, but it's pretty uncomfortable lesson! If only in the winter on snow, it is quite possible.
In such cases, I use a simple clamp and a piece of wood.
Just this piece of wood is attracted to the middle end of the sheet, it is possible to facilitate to put a piece of tube-sheet under it on the pipe then it extends generally very easy.
Here such uncomplicated methods can tolerate without tension or drag heavy metal sheets in their area, or in the garage. If you master the manual arc welding alone, then add the channel to your favorites, so you do not look for, and you can learn many useful articles on welding.