Metal Bending - Another Crosspost

Speaking of Northern Tool. Are there any other hardware vendors out there with the diverse product lines like they carry?

"Bob La Londe" wrote in news:g5qfj7$nr4$ snipped-for-privacy@registered.motzarella.org:

Well, there is Harbor Freight. But much of Northern Tool's stuff seems a bit better quality.

Ken

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:49:06 -0700, with neither quill nor qualm, "Bob La Londe" quickly quoth:

Additional product specs: Bends .100in. aluminum up to 20in. wide.

It probably has a half-inch throat capacity.

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Harbor Freight is a great place to pick up cheap wrenches for torch and hammer bending to make single use custom wrenches, but... LOL.

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The spring winders I've worked with make one part at a time, wound on a retracting mandrel. They resemble screw machines in some ways. Cam driven with changeable forming slides and no end of gadgets that clever folks have dreamed up over the last hundred years or so.

The typical sequence is; feed the wire, form the first leg, wind, form the second leg, cut off, retract the mandrel and release the coil, extend the mandrel, repeat.

Some simple coils are made on machines that wind a continuous length that's chopped up on another machine.