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Old 06-12-2018, 09:40 AM
Alan Bottomley Alan Bottomley is offline
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Originally Posted by Charlie Myres View Post
G'day Oldnek,
I made this yesterday and I can do three of the bends on the magnabender and the fourth one by hand.

Material is 1.2mm steel and the machine never lets go, even on the narrow flange which is 15mm.

I have used Bill's tip of placing some off-cuts under the small clamp plates to make them grip better and once I used some heavy steel plate to assist the process, but that is never needed on the long clamps.

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Cheers Charlie
Hi Charlie,
Thanks for your post and the picture is very informative.
You mention that you did 3 of the folds on your Magnabend and the 4th one by hand.
Since the profile is a tapered "top-hat" you could probably do all 4 bends on your Magnabend, although possibly the sides of the top-hat may have to have a little more taper:


Please see this section of my Magnabend website:
http://www.aaybee.com.au/Magnabend/M...TopHatProfiles
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