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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Mike Rambour
Bug Writer err...Programmer
mikey@b2systems.com
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