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    Large Radius Bend in 3/8" Plate

    It is hydraulic. That's so simple! I can't believe I never thought to try that. I'll see what the biggest die I have is and play around with some 3/8" plate and see what happens.
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    Large Radius Bend in 3/8" Plate

    Thank you, I sent them an RFQ.
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    Large Radius Bend in 3/8" Plate

    Looking to do a small run on just (4) bends in 3/8" plate, with like a 2" or 3" radius bend (flexible on the exact radius). Bends would be in mild steel on a 28" long plate. I have a 50T shop press and a 25T x 6' press brake. I've made tooling before to do a similar bend on 3/16" thick material...
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    Help Forming a Narrow, long-legged U-Channel

    Unfortunately it has a bit more dimension than that, there's some detail in it, I just said C-Channel because the concept is the same. Yes, I have some 24ga sheet I was planning on using to make these.
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    Help Forming a Narrow, long-legged U-Channel

    I need to make 40, potentially a repeat customer, but probably the same quantity. I have a manual bridgeport type mill My original plan was to try and form them by hand like you mentioned, but I'm worried it won't give a clean look when it's done. The sharp corner bends are pretty important, as...
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    Help Forming a Narrow, long-legged U-Channel

    I need to make a small quantity of U-channels, with 1/4" inside width and ~2" leg lengths. It's just a decorative wrap going around 1/4" plastic panels, and will be glued to the plastic. The thickness of the sheet metal can be whatever will work best. The length of the channel will be about 4"...
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    Correcting Slop on Plate Roller End?

    Well you all pretty much affirmed what I was thinking. We only plan on using this machine MAYBE once per week, so we'll just have to live with the slop. Though if it gets to be too annoying, we may consider machining out the swing arm and pressing in a bushing there. I never thought of that...
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    Correcting Slop on Plate Roller End?

    It's an older Lown G500, 10ga x 50" capacity. I bought it cheap from HGR. Works great for most of my needs, but I noticed on larger pieces, it was rolling a little inconsistently from one end to the other, making a very slight funnel shape. I can adjust the far end with an adjusting screw to get...
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    Di-Acro 14-72 Press Brake Not Flat? Bent Parts Have Uneven Bends in Center of Length

    I just purchased a used Di-Acro 14-72, 35 ton press brake. I'm very new to press brakes, this is my first time even using a press brake. I'm bending 18ga sheet at 50" long using a 3/8" V-Die, bending a 1" flange. I dialed in the machine so I'm getting a 90 degree bend, which is 90 on both length...
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    Tips/Advice on Used Lower Priced Laser Cutter?

    I know "laser" and "lower priced" don't go together, but I wanted to get some opinions on purchasing an older, used laser cutter. A lower end CNC plasma cutter works just fine for my needs, I don't NEED the tolerances or benefits of a laser cutter, but it would save a lot of time with the...
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    RFQ - Misc Machined Components

    And here are the last 2 (12 total prints). Feel free to email me and I can send you the PDF with everything combined.
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    RFQ - Misc Machined Components

    Here are 5 more prints:
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    RFQ - Misc Machined Components

    I already have the PO for this job, just looking to outsource some of the machined components as I'm not really set up for this type of work. Quantities are listed on each page. I would prefer to have this all quoted as a single order and not split up across multiple sources, but feel free to...
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    Tap handles: Schroeder, Gedore, or someone else

    Please don't hate me for this, but Harbor Freight actually sells a pretty nice tap wrench: T-Handle Tap Ratcheting Wrench I bought one about 3 years ago and it's still going strong. Made in Taiwan so a little better than China.
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    Tapping Straight Holes With a Hand Drill

    What was somewhat interesting is I started digging into this a little more, some of the products have all the holes perfectly straight, while most of the other products have all crooked holes. It seems to be there are a handful of employees here who can tap a straight hole, while the rest are...
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    Tapping Straight Holes With a Hand Drill

    I guess I never considered going with a larger drill, I just assumed hand drilling would drill a slightly oversized hole. But I'll try the larger drill and see if it makes things easier. I thought of that as well after I posted this. My initial concern was that the twisting of the drill while...
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    Tapping Straight Holes With a Hand Drill

    We make furniture products with a huge variety of different shapes, sizes, material sizes, etc. Everything gets drilled and tapped for a simple leveler in the bottom. After the base or leg is finished, the holes are drilled and tapped by hand with battery powered drill. We used to use 1/4-20...
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    Anyone know of a saw with a large miter capacity?

    To anyone who's interested, I purchased a Marvel 8 Mark III saw and it was awesome, but no matter what we did, we could not keep the saw from wandering at the point of entry. I called a few tech support people from various companies, and they all agreed this was a difficult task for the saw to...
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    Speed/Feed Recommendation for milling CrV sockets

    Because I have a ton of the Cobalt endmills I bought cheap off eBay. I'd like to put them to use. But I also thought carbide didn't do very well on interrupted cuts? Well if you were in northern Illinois, you would have the job. I had a couple local places quote it and they wanted $3+/each to...
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    Speed/Feed Recommendation for milling CrV sockets

    It's a special application being sold to a shower/bath distributor, they want 19mm sockets (Chromium Vanadium) milled with a 5/16" wide notch at the end so they can fit into a metal drain cap and be used to unscrew and screw it in. They don't fit around a nut, so the orientation of the notch...

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