bending brake plans?

Here's a link to a 6" brake that I suppose you could modify to any width you like. It has a lot of nice diagrams and pictures. It's a first class job for a homemade brake.

I posted this once before a while back and some one whined about the page size being enormous and taking a long time to load. I'm running at residential speeds and it loads fine for me. If it takes a while to load just wait and it will get there.

I used these plans to fabricate a brake. Needed to bend 1/8" 4130 and this unit worked like a charm. I modified the plans to make it a 12" brake....

Lately it has been one of the more useful tools in the shop while making my tail wheel assembly.

Merle ..snip

Wonderful!

Hey Peter

I m the guy that designed and built the brake that Jack posted on his web page. I just wanted you to know that Jack didn t get all of the information onto his site. If you want all available info that I supplied go to

You will find all the info in there welding talk forum. You can do a search in the project section for something like METAL BENDING BRAKE. Well, if you choose to build the machine I hope you have fun doing so. I tried my best to give out as much info as possible, however if you have any questions either post them here or on the Hobart site becasue i visit both sites every day.

Merle

Comments like yours make me glad that I spent the time to put all the info for building this brake onot the internet . I am amazed at how wide spread this project has become . It ends up showing up at several different site that I visit. Im just truely glad that something that I designed and built is actually useful to others.

Thanks for sending it out there I'm sure it'll be built many times it's a good design...nice welds by the way.

Peter

Thanks Dan. It really works well.

I also made up a flat plate but made it adjustable (forward and backward) with plates underneath with various radius to bend different thickness of

4130. It works great for my application.

Thanks again for a really neat and useful tool