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vtsteam:
Tomorrow I will bend up the inside baffles for the ends.
SwarfnStuff:
Great bending job, Now if I can just drag your, "Bending Brake" method and parts out of me dandruff sometime in the future - when I need to do something similar. All will be well. Trouble with getting old is not that we get forgetful but it's just that we have so much information stored in the old grey matter the retrieval system takes time to search the records. (At least that's my excuse.) :coffee:
CrazyModder:
Very nice job, indeed.
Incidently, I made a similar bending project a few days ago. I spent maybe 1.5 days planning, sourcing and building a bender first (the DIY type where you bolt down some heavy duty L profiles to the bench).
Long story short - it worked, kind of, but in the end it was just too much of a hassle and not flexible enough (no pun intended). In my desperation, I ended up doing it just like you, in a vice. That way, the whole bending was done with in about 30 minutes and turned out very fine. Wish I had seen your photos before wasting those 1.5 days. :)
vtsteam:
Crazy, I was just thinking about inlaying a section of angle iron in the bench edge with tapped holes to accept a second piece for bending sheet metal :) -- is that what you had tried?
BTW the angle iron in the vise wasn't ideal -- mainly because angle iron has an inside corner fillet, so it makes aligning the work and two irons difficult. You have to align things above the jaws, not resting on them. Takes 3 hands!
I think I might attach a padding strip of steel to the inside face of the angle iron to pad it out past the radius. Then the iron can rest on the jaws and align automatically. Or you could mill out the radius. But shifting things around for a minute or so worked okay for this job, lacking better facilities.
Swarf, I definitely know what you mean! :doh:
awemawson:
Before I got a folder I just used a pair of angle irons, with a series of holes in them as alternative places to bolt them together for varying sheet lengths. Technique was to pinch the sheet between them then hold the assembly in the vice and perform the bend by hand / softwood block like Steve did. In fact I think that those angle irons are still laying about in my stock area come to think about it!
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