whats the best way of bending aluminium?

[Peter Normington]

I think without a roller or press brake it will be dificult to get a nice radius.
I would bend to smaller pieces of alli say 25mm x 3mm to make two hooks and rivet to the blank.
(By the way you will need at least 6″ of the plate to form the hook)

Do you know of a friendly fabrication shop nearby?

What thinkness of plate by the way?

Peter

[Phill Fenton]

What Thinkness of plate do you thick Peter? :lol1:

[Peter Normington]

Flipin’ ‘eck Phil I make one spellink ero in agas an u av2 spit it

1step sines

[Nathan]

Peter – I was think of using a 3mm thickness.

Nathan

[Peter Normington]

Nathan,
you could try this, but use a scaffold tube as a former. and you would need to rotate the blank when you get past 90 degrees

The “stretcher” needs to be under the blank, and the legs resting on the table though

http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … end+dibond

Sorry just noticed as well, you would need to put the plate at the edge of the table

Peter

[George Elsmore]

Uri Geller….

I’ll get me coat 🙄

[Nathan]

Peter – Thanks for the link, what’s the “stretcher” that’s shown in the diagram?

Nathan

[Peter Normington]

refer back to the post by Russ, the stretcher is the bit of timber that is used as a lever to bend the plate, he called it a stretcher because in effect it looks like one, (the type you carry casualties on) but in effect you could use timber screwed together to make an “H” shape.
Hope this makes it a bit clearer

Peter

[digitaldallas]

Hello 😀

You might ask someone who is an electrician they have tools to bend pipe that you might be able to use to give you the hook you are looking for.

Good Luck.

Buzz Tatom

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[Peter Normington]

buzz.
I think the job may well have been sorted by now! it was a long time since this post,

check the date!

Welcome to our world though

Peter