Is this tool a gimmick or is it actually useful? (2025 Update)

Dec 07, 2018 Last reply: 8 months ago 1 Replies

I was browsing and searching on amazon for Christmas gifts and somehow this popped up:

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. I've never seen one before. It's basically a press brake in pliers form :-). Makes bends up to 4" long in up to 0.6 mm (0.024") thick material. Description says "Portable manual metal bender plier tool is mainly used in bending the material thickness within 0.6mm and width within 100mm iron edgings, aluminum fiber edge or stainless steel letter edges." What are fiber or letter edges? Looks cute, but does it have sufficient leverage or do you need to be the Hulk to squeeze the handles? Can anyone say if it's a real tool or will it break on the third pull?


I think if you 'overloaded' it those vertical linkages that are in compression would buckle very quickly.

Maybe the letter edges is something to do with signage?

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