I have a bracket I'll be making a few of. I don't have that much sheet metal equipment in house. My only brake is an 8'x14ga Dreis & Krump hand brake.
The basic model is pretty simple, and I can do it on my brake. All the bends line up, etc. I've attached a sketch of the profile.
For the more complex model, there are some areas where I need to not bend the metal up. Normally I'd say press brake with dogleg tooling, but it looks like it would take a pretty big dogleg to get around the interference.
The part of my brake that swings up has a removable metal insert (unfortunately it's all one piece). If I build/buy a new, sectional insert, it wouldn't bend up in the section where the insert isn't. I've never seen a brake work this way, so I'm not sure if it's feasible. Every time I've seen a hand brake with sectional tooling, it's a pan brake, and the sectional parts are on the top, clamping section, not the swinging part.
Apologies for the complete butchering of correct brake terminology.
Thanks,
Daniel
The basic model is pretty simple, and I can do it on my brake. All the bends line up, etc. I've attached a sketch of the profile.
For the more complex model, there are some areas where I need to not bend the metal up. Normally I'd say press brake with dogleg tooling, but it looks like it would take a pretty big dogleg to get around the interference.
The part of my brake that swings up has a removable metal insert (unfortunately it's all one piece). If I build/buy a new, sectional insert, it wouldn't bend up in the section where the insert isn't. I've never seen a brake work this way, so I'm not sure if it's feasible. Every time I've seen a hand brake with sectional tooling, it's a pan brake, and the sectional parts are on the top, clamping section, not the swinging part.
Apologies for the complete butchering of correct brake terminology.
Thanks,
Daniel