*Click here for more metal forming machinery. A plasma cutter isn’t exactly a tool that sheet metal workers can carry around in their pockets — as nice as this model from Advance Cutting Systems is.

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If you work on cars, you will eventually have to make a bracket, gauge panel, or other useful item out of sheet metal or aluminum. If you're like us, layout procedures and all of those time-saving ...

Fast forward more than two decades. The founder of Freedom Fabricators in Jupiter, Fla., stands in front of a large press brake and its touchscreen controller, again working aluminum—this time on a ...

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If you have ever looked closely at a typical mass-produced automobile, you will be familiar with pressed-steel panels. Complex curves can be repeated thousands of times over, by putting a sheet of ...