{"id":391,"date":"2017-07-22T19:34:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T11:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2017-07-22T19:34:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T11:34:34","slug":"july-22-2017-the-sheet-metal-bender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guerillamotive.com\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"July 22, 2017. The sheet metal bender."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another big break between update, starting old and working to the new…<\/p>\n

Sheet metal bender<\/strong><\/p>\n

I needed a sheet metal bender to get the aluminium sheet parts ready for gluing- riveting to the frame. Not wanting to spend the money on a serious unit I visited the Darwin dump recycling store and came back with some likely looking scrap, this was a set of parallel bars from a gym or hospital and steel from some sort of structure:<\/p>\n

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Some thinking about it and drawing it up in Onshape.com I came up with:<\/p>\n

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Which with a lot of grinding welding and swearing turned into:<\/p>\n

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Which due to the broken phone camera is out of focus, this could bend thin stuff pretty well, like this:<\/p>\n

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But the clamp ends proved weak and needed reinforcing to do serious material, unsurprisingly the box collapsed under the load…<\/p>\n

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After more cutting, grinding and swearing using the remains of the scrap metal to hand the reinforced version was ready:<\/p>\n

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This was good enough to put a 45 degree (ish) bend in 250mm of 3mm thick stainless steel.<\/p>\n

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With a functioning bender I could now get on with the sheet metal work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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