And the journey begins

[Stan9]

After about 10 years of getting ready I have finally started bending metal. Today's task included completing the shear feed table and building the stand for the new break. With that complete I started bending stiffner angles for the ribs. I got a great jump when I bought some parts from Hari Gopalan. Now that I have started, all I lack is finishing

[sjt]

The sheet metal brake I used looked very similar. It was from northern tools. To accommodate the radius for the bend in my aluminum I needed a shoe that had the 0.1 radius. The unmodified brake could make the shoe; but I then needed to put the shoe in the brake with the aluminum. There was not enough set back adjustment left.
I had to modify my brake to get the adjustment needed to mount both the sheet metal and shoe with the correct set back.

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stan timmerman
austin tx

[EricP]

Ahhh... the old attach angles... How I remember starting on learning metal work with those!!