Brake Recommendations?

Unless you're setting up a shop with floorspace for a heavy, expensive machine, your best tool here would be a telephone and some cash.

When I have had need for one or a few pieces like this, I've jigged up flat stock with an open corner and welded the corner. Looks like a bend, works just fine.

That is a pretty hefty bend. How many of these do you need? What is the inner radius?

Wes

Play with the vee die opening. Small vee's require more tonnage. The vee is going to be acute. A 90 degree die won't work due to spring back.

HTH,

Wes

Oops! I forgot to ask about that.

Ok, this would not be a sharp bend, but the curve on the *outside* would be the same as that of a 2inch ball(max.).

I'm assuming that the radius would be 1 inch and a tiny bit smaller since the metal would only be 1/8" thick.

Also, how much easier would 72 degrees be?

Thanks a lot.

Darren Harris Staten Island, New York.

What you now describe would be a piece of cake for a hossfeld type bender if it was 4" wide and bending in the small direction, 6" is too wide for the hossfeld, but you might copy the basic form in a purpose built bender, if you are bending the 24" way some form of press brake is about your best shot. Or cut a section out of a piece of 2" x 1/8" wall tubing and weld it to a pair of plates.