Charles A. Sherwood wrote:

I have been looking at diacro manual benders.
THey come in sizes 1,1A,2,3,4

These benders are expensive new and even seem to fetch a good price on ebay.
It would be nice to have one, but its hard to justify the price for
something I would not use very often.

Anybody ever make a simple version of one? They look simple enough.
See diacro.com under manual benders for pics if you are not familar with them.

Micro mark sells something the looks similar that might be a good
starting point.


I have a Chicago 38" finger brake. It weighs about 400 Lbs. The
construction is
absolutely incredible, the brake beam is a 2x4 of solid steel welded to
a bar.
I had to take it apart to get it out of my car, and it took a couple of
strong guys to
lift the beam back into place! What is amazing is this thing, for all
the MASSIVE
construction, still has trouble bending some pretty light pieces of
aluminum and
really thin steel! Throwing a couple of pieces of light steel angle
together is
NOT going to make much of a tool.

Jon