going to be making home made pressbrake, jack sizes?

[brendan_h]

i stuffed up and didnt understand what was ment. will be using angle now. 65x65x10 be alright or would 50x50x8 be better?

[brendan_h]

got the bottom die make up.

end up using some angle and put a 8mm spacer under one side of the angle. some the V is over 90 degrees. hopfully its enough to do 8mm do you think it will do 8mm the way i made it?

[brendan_h]

NOOB CAD of what i did

black is the angle and plate the angle is on. red was the 3 bars i made to connect the 2 and blue is weld.
with the upper dies do i make it so the angle on the die is the same as the lower die?


on with the main frame got no ider how do make it so the press can slide other then using pipe

[MMW]

Go to www.northerntool.com & do a search for press brake which will show you pics of what you can buy. Should give you some ideas.

[brendan_h]

how good do the upper die need to be? can you just grind it to shape?

[aametalmaster]

Sure you can make what you need. It may not last as long from being used and will get some marks in it but you can rework it...Bob

[brendan_h]

will it finished the press brake off. works awesome. tryed to bend some 5mmx about 300-400mm wide flat bar, got it to bend a little bit but then i stoped as the lower dies where turning into a banana

so far ive bend 5x100mm no problems, 3mm x about 250 no problems.

also too it will bend way last 90* which is a good thing i guess

i am thinking about making some differnt lower dies for when i want to bend some heavy section. just got to work out a design

[monte55]

how about pictures