On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 08:26:40 -0400, Leon Fisk
wrote:

On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 21:46:36 -0500
"Carl" wrote:

I was browsing and searching on amazon for Christmas gifts and somehow this
popped up:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...72JU6D&psc= 1
. I've never seen one before. It's basically a press brake in pliers form
:-). Makes bends up to 4" long in up to 0.6 mm (0.024") thick material.
Description says "Portable manual metal bender plier tool is mainly used in
bending the material thickness within 0.6mm and width within 100mm iron
edgings, aluminum fiber edge or stainless steel letter edges." What are
fiber or letter edges? Looks cute, but does it have sufficient leverage or
do you need to be the Hulk to squeeze the handles? Can anyone say if it's a
real tool or will it break on the third pull?

Interesting and new to me too. One of the other suggested similar
tools has some videos on youtube. They are used to make metal
channel letters for sales, marketing, displays... watch some of the
youtube videos:

https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ette r+Bender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxcGp6OX3VA

I suspect it would work okay for those thin metals...

That Blackstone bender looked a lot more heavy duty, and you could see
that he used a bar in the end for leverage on the heavier metal.

(That H-E product might require gorilla hands for 4" stock, Carl.)

I have a magnetic, vise-jaw-mounted v-bender which works alright for
small and narrow items.
http://www.leevalley.com/us/wood/pag...=1,43456,43407

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