How-To: Mini Bending Brake

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By Sean Michael Ragan
Posted 2012/03/14 @ 11:00 pm
Category Tools, Workshop

I don’t really have any use for a miniature sheet metal brake, but I want to build this one from Instructables user Improbable Concept just because it looks like fun. [via adafruit]

Homemade Mini Bend Brake

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4 Responses to How-To: Mini Bending Brake

rocketguy1701 on March 15th, 2012 at 2:23 pm said:

On the other end of the size spectrum, Dave Clay’s bending brake has been extremely popular among those who bend a lot of sheet metal for building aircraft and other things.

http://www.eaa.org/experimenter/articles/2009-05_howto_brakes.asp

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Dave Brunker (@dbrunker) on March 16th, 2012 at 8:28 am said:

Too bad this project requires welding. I’m not sure it would work with simple brazing and I don’t have welding tools or skill.

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Rob on August 21st, 2012 at 3:42 pm said:

Thanks for posting this Sean, I wanted to do what you’ve done, but in the end it was beyond my skill level, so I just copped out & went & bought one! (here’s the one I bought http://www.precisionhandtools.co.uk/misc/mini-pocket-metal-bender-formodelmakers-robots-etc )

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