Hello
I`m struggling trying to bend a 180mm length, 20mm wide by 1.5mm thick half hard brass into a circle. I`ve calculated that the diameter of the circle formed will be 57.3mm so I`ve made a metal former and I`ve tried to bend the metal around that. The problems I`m having are:
1. The very ends are not bending properly, they are still straight when you look closely and so consequently the ends are not butting together properly.
2. There is lots of spring in the brass and so I`m struggling to even hold the two ends together.
3. Although I`ve made a former, the brass is so stiff that I can`t get it to perfectly fold around the former, I`m not strong enough.
Any suggestions would be helpful. The idea is to silver solder the joint together!!
Chris