On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 07:55:54 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 14:05:35 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

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I made the 4' pan brake to form white aluminum flashing to cover my
exterior window frames, which I rebuilt in PT wood that doesn't hold
paint well. The brake isn't nearly stiff enough to bent 22 gauge
steel
but it clamps it well.

When I was completed and was adjusting the brake a neighbor stopped
by, asked what it was, then when I told him, said I could borrow his
10' Tapco siding brake.

Rat bastid. He waited, eh?

The welded and machined end hinge and clamp assemblys bolt to straight
channel, angle and bar stock, so it wasn't recognizable until fully
assembled.

I retract my curse.


I didn't know he had the brake, they aren't common
homeowner tools.

This is true, and mfgrs are very, very proud of those brakes.


Another neighbor gave me a leftover roll of the white aluminum flashing.

Nice score.

--
America rose from abnormal origins. The nation didn't grow organ-
ically or gradually from indigenous tribes--like, say, the French
or the Poles--but emerged out of courageous, conscious acts of
will by Pilgrims and Patriots. --Michael Medved, Right Turns