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Jon Elson
 
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Default Bending aluminum bar stock.

Bob May wrote:
Hon, thanks for the affirmation of where I was wanting to go.
I think that I'm just going to have to build the 3 roll roller for the job.
I've used them before so I know what they look like and how they operate.

Just build it WAY more stout than you really think necessary. I'd use
something like 2" diameter rollers just a couple inches long, with at
least 1" ID bearings. I don't know whether you will have trouble
feeding the stock into the rollers. You might make strips of kraft
paper to feed with the stock, so the rollers grip it better.

Jon