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- TrailRat
May 15, 2011, 4:31 pm
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OK, hobbyist metal worker with no real specialist tools here.
I want to bend a strip of aluminium. I want to put four neat half circles i=
n a strip! Probably something matching the size of the diameter of a coke c=
an. The strip will probably be 40mm wide, 1000mm long and about 3-4mm thick=
depending what I can get at the hardware store.
Would it be possible to put the bends in over a former, cold, without the s=
trip bending?
I want to bend a strip of aluminium. I want to put four neat half circles i=
n a strip! Probably something matching the size of the diameter of a coke c=
an. The strip will probably be 40mm wide, 1000mm long and about 3-4mm thick=
depending what I can get at the hardware store.
Would it be possible to put the bends in over a former, cold, without the s=
trip bending?
Re: Bending Aluminium Strips
Yes. Just back up the parts you want to leave straight with something
straight and solid -- a thicker piece of aluminum, or steel, or even
hardwood -- while you bend it around a piece of pipe.
If you fasten the backing strips/bar/blocks to the aluminum strip with
C-clamps, you'll have better control of the whole affair.
--
Ed Huntress
Re: Bending Aluminium Strips
"Jim Wilkins" <>
wrote in message On May 16, 4:29 am, T
railRat <> wrote:
Try the bends on a practice piece first. Aluminum
is easy to bend but
making neat bends the right size is harder.
jsw
Heat the bar hot enough to char a pine stick and
then quench it in water.
You have a few hours to work it till it 'stiffens'
again.
phil
Re: Bending Aluminium Strips
(I'm UK based)!
Where in the UK are you as there are plenty of companies around that can
supply you with a known alloy and probably cheaper than B&Q. IIRC my
local stockist in Bath normally stocks flat in 6082. That'll bend easily
cold in the size you mentioned but be prepared for some spring back,
also the stock seems to be inch sizes not metric.
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