Mystery brake

Please,

Blanks are NOT allowed in a URL. Thus

Brake.JPG should be written as H.L.Law

Joepy wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@diybanter.com:

Thanks, I corrected it (I think)

-Joepy

Lawman Wrote:

-- Joepy

On my browser, it worked by cut/paste, but it's still good advice, since the blank breaks the clickable link. Commas and certain other punctuation marks do that too.

Cheers! Rich

A bit of font trivia for inquiring minds out there. %20 = a space in 8 bit Ascii (the % acts as a flag which says "the next string of numbers is the code for a character" and 20 is the ascii (also unicode) for a space (in hex). A few other common ones are %2C = comma, %3A = colon, %3B = semicolon, and %25 = percent.

Jim - former font geek

Once s geek always a geek. Nice try... : )

if you try it without the blank it seems to work too. Like below.

I notice not a single comment on the brake. Is this an equipment foru or a how to load pictures forum? signed linghunt (keep your powde dry boys

-- Linghunt

I dont think this is american. Its vaguely possible that it was made by some itty bitty american company, but most likely its european. My guess would be german or austrian.

Its a wierd hybrid. The europeans have made hand operated press brakes for a while, but usually not with a bottom leaf.

Does it work? seems like it would have a pretty small capacity in terms of thickness, since the upper press brake die is being subjected to side loads, instead of the up/down load of a real press brake. And since it is an unsupported, rather long (8"? 10") die hanging down there, not very thick, I would think the side pressure of the bendin leaf would make it wiggle if you tried it on very thick stuff.

The reason for the bottom leaf though, is because the straight vertical movement of a real press brake takes a lot of force- the few "manual" press brakes I have seen, like the Di-acro, used linkages to multiply your hand force.

I guess I wasn't clear on how it operates. It's not a press brake. It' a folding brake. The only difference between it and a conventiona finger brake is that the fingers clamp vertically and through linkage, always point along the bend angle bisector as the apron i pivoted upward. That way the force on the fingers is always i compression -- no bending moment.

Very clever design. Just wished I knew who made it. Too bad the deale this was originally purchased from is defunct.

I have bent 16 ga steel (full 36" width) on this machine without muc groaning but I would sure like to know it's rated capacity.

Thanks for the input.

Joep

-- Joepy

Or more commonly but between left and right arrows. Thus

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