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Jim Wilkins Jim Wilkins is offline
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Default Narrow, heavy duty metal brake

On Jan 2, 1:27*pm, Winston wrote:
I want to bend up some ~12 ga. CRS but
I don't want to buy or house a big brake.

--Winston


If you have the freedom to design the part to fit your tools this is a
lot of thickness capacity in a small package:
http://tool.wttool.com/search?w=2805-0105&x=41&y=16

12 gauge steel isn't too thick to clamp to a piece of heavy angle and
bend with a hammer.

I formed the bucket on this with a hammer:
http://picasaweb.google.com/KB1DAL/H...65918437561074

jsw