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Subject: bending steel
From: Mike Rambour <mikey@b2systems.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:16:23 -0700
  I find myself in a position to bend some steel and I don't want to 
spend thousands on a brake.  I need to bend 1/8" plate at 90degrees, 
max width would be 24".

  What I did was purchase a cheapie HF brake for 18guage (NO I never 
expected it to bend the 1/8") and then clamped my steel in it and 
used my Oxy/Acet torch to heat the metal, a friend with a propane 
torch, kept it hot as I moved to another area, and we bent it and it 
looks good.  I just used the HF brake as a "guide" and it worked for 
that, we did the 3 bends and all was well.

  Now I am looking at doing quite a few more and I think I need a 
better system but a brake to handle that is of course hydraulic and 
in the thousands, I can buy a lot of Oxy/Acet for that :)

  I found this on the web 
http://www.shopoutfitters.com/PressBrake.html  which is way cool and 
I think way overpriced also but it only does 10".  My theory is if it 
can do 10" wide X 5/16" this steel then this design should easily be 
able to handle 20 to 24" of 1/8" and so should the press, it 
calculates at 22tons needed to bend 1/8" x 24" long, my press should 
do that.  Anyone seen something like this ?

   I may just end up paying someone to make the bends as it is a one 
time deal but I never pass up the chance to buy a tool if I can :)

        Mike

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