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Good news for scratch builders of metal airplanes - Home Depot rents bending brakes
If you're building in aluminum from scratch, one of the most
intractable problems is the need for an 8 ft bending brake for most designs. A good one, even used, is about $1000, and at least half that many pounds, although there are alternatives that weigh less. http://www.guttersupply.com/products...ategoryId=1277 There are various ways to do a pretty good job with cheaper tooling, but I think Dave Thatcher, the designer of the neat CX-4 VW powered single seater http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CX4/ http://thatchercx4.com/ has the answer to our prayers: -- In , "Dave Thatcher" thatchercx4@... wrote: Gentlemen: The Home Depot here in Pensacola rents out an eight foot portable bending break that is used for on site bending of gutters. This is a GREAT find. It makes me wonder if other tool rental places have bending brakes. Not every Home Depot has a full rental department. This link shows the stores with Rental departments: http://www.homedepot.com/cmc_upload/.../Store_Loc.pdf It is ideal for bending the aileron ,elevator, rudder, and wing tip trailing edges. I rented it yesterday and made everything in about 5 hours.I even went ahead and made two sets of ailerons. It sits right up on your construction table. It rents for about $40.00 per day. The Home Depot part number for this device is 1012600340. This thing is going to make construction of the CX4 real easy and fast. The foot is not adjustable, so you will need to bend two 8 ft long strips of .020 about 2" wide to add to the foot. This will give you a nice radius on your bends. I have ask Herb to post pictures of the device in the photos section, so be on the lookout for them. Best regards, Dave Thatcher A video of Dave making clean, long bends at Sun and Fun with very little tooling was very inspirational to my efforts towards finishing my Teenie Two derivative, and I've got a blog entry that covers that technique, http://users.lmi.net/~ryoung/2006/11...ilders-of.html but a real brake is even better. If you want to try your hand at building a bending brake, I like this one the best of the passel of homebuilt brakes I've seen on the web. http://www.ch601.org/tools/bendbrake/brakeplans.pdf I have not had good luck getting local sheet metal/HVAC shops to do this sort of work. They're set up to do sharp, zero radius bends in steel. If they even KNOW what "setback" means, they're too busy to mess with it. |
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