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sheet metal bending

sheet metal bending

sheet metal bending

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What is the difference between hand bend & press brake bend?
I'm certain extra labor is involved in hand bend.

Can someone give details like what kind of bend to prefer, design consideration,

RE: sheet metal bending

In a 'box & pan' brake, usually hand-powered, you pinch what will be one leg of the bent part, and sweep the bend to the other leg, in a way that's kinematically similar to making a tubing bend.

In a press brake, you position what will be the center of the bend above the root of a v-die, and force a punch down into it, effectively bending from the center out in both ways at once.  You often stop before the punch bottoms out in the die, making an 'air bend', which allows you a variety of nominal radii with one set of tooling.  The bent shape actually resembles a hyperbola more than an arc.

There's another kind of hand bend, where you clamp what will be one leg of the part between some rigid metal bars, and beat the remainder of the workpiece down agains one of the bars with a hammer, sometimes with a handheld third bar to distribute the hammer's abuse.  It's more labor intensive than using either kind of brake.

 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: sheet metal bending

jaimi
Mike has pretty well covered the bases on Sheet metal bending.
 One device he did not mention for hand bending is the pair of hand tongs, used on thin metal these are an overgrown pair of pliers used to bend metal to shape quickly and sometimes easily.

If you give us an idea of what you are trying to bend, we can offer better answers.
B.E.

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