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Is this tool a gimmick or is it actually useful?
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? -- Regards, Carl Ijames |
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On 07-Dec-18 10:46 AM, 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 .Â* I've never seen one before.Â* It's basically a press brake in pliers form :-).Â* 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."Â* What are fiber or letter edges?Â* Looks cute, but does it have sufficient leverage or do you need to be the Hulk to squeeze the handles?Â* Can anyone say if it's a real tool or will it break on the third pull? -- Regards, Carl Ijames I think if you 'overloaded' it those vertical linkages that are in compression would buckle very quickly. Maybe the letter edges is something to do with signage? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=+letter+edge+bender&t=ffab&atb=v145-6__&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images |
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Is this tool a gimmick or is it actually useful?
"Carl" on Thu, 6 Dec 2018 21:46:36
-0500 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following: 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? If it works, it isn't a gimmick. -- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although far too often, Age travels alone." |
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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... -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI |
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Thanks, guys. Always interesting to learn about new tools and methods.
-- Regards, Carl Ijames |
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news 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? -- Regards, Carl Ijames It looks like it would be useful up on a ladder fitting flashing to a window etc, or making large raised letters for a sign. The open end lets it clear previous up or down bends, like folding a box. For electronic chassis work I think its max of 0.024" is too light. I've used 0.032" aluminum for small boxes but hand pressure can deform it. -jsw |
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On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 09:45:27 -0500
"Carl" wrote: Thanks, guys. Always interesting to learn about new tools and methods. You too, thanks for pointing it out. I'll remember it if and when I need something like that -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI |
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Is this tool a gimmick or is it actually useful?
Leon Fisk on Fri, 7 Dec 2018 08:26:40 -0400
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following: 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... Which is what it appears to be made for: on the job tweaks of thin stock. Beats having to haul a pressbrake out to the jobsite. -- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although far too often, Age travels alone." |
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On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 07:48:12 -0800
pyotr filipivich wrote: Leon Fisk on Fri, 7 Dec 2018 08:26:40 -0400 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following: On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 21:46:36 -0500 "Carl" wrote: [...] 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... Which is what it appears to be made for: on the job tweaks of thin stock. Beats having to haul a pressbrake out to the jobsite. If you didn't already... watch the video in the second link, at least some of it. Not that long. The dude really cooks, making letter shapes with a similar tool ;-) -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI |
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Is this tool a gimmick or is it actually useful?
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 -- "I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road." --Steven Hawking |
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