Not a 'spert, but the problem might not be so much w/ HF as w/ the
technique, esp. w/ pita stuff like SS. A lot will depend on the radius of
your bend, and proly on the type of SS itself. Mercifully, you have thin
gauge, altho you didn't specify diam.

Prof'l bending places use all kinds of ancillary stuff, like external
springs, internal sand (kinking), heat, mebbe tension, who knows what else.

You can't generally bend stuff like electricians bend their EMT tubing,
unless the radius is much larger. And even w/ that mat'l designed for
relatively tight radius bends, you see crinkling/kinking, etc.

Again, a lot depends on the radius of the bend.
Oh, and HF-quality proly don't help, either, altho I've been buyin a lot of
stuff from them, and if I don't raise my expectations too high, I'm usually
not too disappointed. Sorta haveta to know what you can "get away with",
with them. Yeah, and welders is proly not one of them. A bender you can
proly get by with...
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Mr. P.V.'d
formerly Droll Troll
"Zipper" zipper777ATcomcastDOTnet wrote in message
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I found this on Harbor Freight
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=39103
I realize this is not a nice metal bender, but I'm poor and I'm not
looking for anything great. I'm dealing with usually 24 guage Stainless
Steel or Aluminum. I know that a lot of products from Harborfreight aren't
worth the money (Welder's come to mind, know this one from experience),
but this seemed simple enough and I don't have any serious uses for this
other than bending metal at 0-90 degrees so I thought this might work. Can
anyone think of a reason why this wouldn't work for what I'm trying to do?
Thanks for any help.

-Nebruin
Metal Noob.