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Posted by Bob La Londe on July 16, 2008, 2:33 am
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> I do this in my hydraulic press.
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> Go to: http://www.spaco.org/Press.htm
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> I don't know about the contamination, but I doubt if it would be problem.
> I'd say that more alumimum is going to rub off on the steel of the dies
> that the other way around.
Hmmm... I like the idea of putting some casters on it. I may do that too.
Right now its out in the middle of my shop.
> Pete Stanaitis
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> Bob La Londe wrote:
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>> Ok... there are obviously sheet metal brakes out there to do this, but
>> the price gets up there pretty quickly. I was wondering if it would be
>> practical bend some small pieces of aluminum in my hydraulic press by
>> positioning them between a couple pieces of steel angle iron or perhaps
>> making some "special" angle with a sharp inner corner or rounded outer
>> corner to better match the two pieces and get a more uniform bend. Not
>> a lot of work this way. Just some simple one off stuff.
>>
>> The second part of my wondering, and hence the cross post, is would this
>> result in to much contamination of the aluminum for good quality welding?
>>
>> Bob La Londe
>> http://www.YumaBassMan.com
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Posted by Ken Moffett on July 18, 2008, 7:05 am
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> Ok... there are obviously sheet metal brakes out there to
> do this, but the price gets up there pretty quickly. I was
> wondering if it would be practical bend some small pieces
> of aluminum in my hydraulic press by positioning them
> between a couple pieces of steel angle iron or perhaps
> making some "special" angle with a sharp inner corner or
> rounded outer corner to better match the two pieces and get
> a more uniform bend. Not a lot of work this way. Just
> some simple one off stuff.
>
> The second part of my wondering, and hence the cross post,
> is would this result in to much contamination of the
> aluminum for good quality welding?
>
> Bob La Londe
> http://www.YumaBassMan.com
>
>
>
Not sure what your price limit is, but Northern Tool has a
couple of hydraulic press add-ons the create a press brake.
Ken
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Posted by Bob La Londe on July 18, 2008, 11:49 am
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>
>> Ok... there are obviously sheet metal brakes out there to
>> do this, but the price gets up there pretty quickly. I was
>> wondering if it would be practical bend some small pieces
>> of aluminum in my hydraulic press by positioning them
>> between a couple pieces of steel angle iron or perhaps
>> making some "special" angle with a sharp inner corner or
>> rounded outer corner to better match the two pieces and get
>> a more uniform bend. Not a lot of work this way. Just
>> some simple one off stuff.
>>
>> The second part of my wondering, and hence the cross post,
>> is would this result in to much contamination of the
>> aluminum for good quality welding?
>>
>> Bob La Londe
>> http://www.YumaBassMan.com
>>
>>
>>
>
> Not sure what your price limit is, but Northern Tool has a
> couple of hydraulic press add-ons the create a press brake.
>
> Ken
That's some cool stuff. This one got my attention not because if its
overall size or anything, but its capacity.
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_21896_21896
1/2 material. That's pretty incredible.
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Posted by Bob La Londe on July 18, 2008, 12:15 pm
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>> Ok... there are obviously sheet metal brakes out there to
>> do this, but the price gets up there pretty quickly. I was
>> wondering if it would be practical bend some small pieces
>> of aluminum in my hydraulic press by positioning them
>> between a couple pieces of steel angle iron or perhaps
>> making some "special" angle with a sharp inner corner or
>> rounded outer corner to better match the two pieces and get
>> a more uniform bend. Not a lot of work this way. Just
>> some simple one off stuff.
>>
>> The second part of my wondering, and hence the cross post,
>> is would this result in to much contamination of the
>> aluminum for good quality welding?
>>
>> Bob La Londe
>> http://www.YumaBassMan.com
>>
>>
>>
>
> Not sure what your price limit is, but Northern Tool has a
> couple of hydraulic press add-ons the create a press brake.
>
> Ken
Speaking of Northern Tool. Are there any other hardware vendors out there
with the diverse product lines like they carry?
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Posted by Ken Moffett on July 18, 2008, 6:47 pm
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>>
>>> Ok... there are obviously sheet metal brakes out there
>>> to do this, but the price gets up there pretty quickly.
>>> I was wondering if it would be practical bend some small
>>> pieces of aluminum in my hydraulic press by positioning
>>> them between a couple pieces of steel angle iron or
>>> perhaps making some "special" angle with a sharp inner
>>> corner or rounded outer corner to better match the two
>>> pieces and get a more uniform bend. Not a lot of work
>>> this way. Just some simple one off stuff.
>>>
>>> The second part of my wondering, and hence the cross
>>> post, is would this result in to much contamination of
>>> the aluminum for good quality welding?
>>>
>>> Bob La Londe
>>> http://www.YumaBassMan.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Not sure what your price limit is, but Northern Tool has a
>> couple of hydraulic press add-ons the create a press
>> brake.
>>
>> Ken
>
> Speaking of Northern Tool. Are there any other hardware
> vendors out there with the diverse product lines like they
> carry?
>
>
>
Well, there is Harbor Freight. But much of Northern Tool's
stuff seems a bit better quality.
Ken
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> Go to: http://www.spaco.org/Press.htm
>
> I don't know about the contamination, but I doubt if it would be problem.
> I'd say that more alumimum is going to rub off on the steel of the dies
> that the other way around.