what do you use to bend 1/4" steel?

[milesstarkey]

i'm just starting to get into fabricating stuff for the 40. i got a mig welder, two grinders, sawzall, jigsaw. but what do you guys use to bend steel?

 

[woody]

right now, torch and a vice and a hammer....

Harbor Freight has a cheap little flat steel bender I wanna get someday...

 

[Radd Cruisers]

I got the harbour frieght round stock and square stock bender, you could make nice lawn orniments with it, I sent it back.

Welded some blocks on my welding table, little heat and I was bending up 90s real nice.

 

[Eskimo]

My friend turned an old press into a brake. Not sure of the exact details, but I know he found the ideas on the web....

 

[Rock Taxi]

To bend 90's, I use angle iron jigged up in my press. For everything else, a BFH and the vice.

Ed

 

[cruiserhead]

As long as it`s not more than 6" I just put it in my 4` brake and lift the handles.Any longer than that and I would have to heat the piece up.
Happy Fabin`

 

[milesstarkey]

ed, what is a bfh?

 

[Rascal]

ed, what is a bfh?

Big F'n Hammer

Usually a 5lbs or better sledge.

 

[orangefj45]

some heat, a vice and a hammer.

 

[haystax]

Better question - how to "un-bend" 1/4"?? More heat and bigger BFH?

Most stuff bends way easier the first time than it unbends after you wreck it