Hand Bender

[Royal Fe]

Here are pictures of a hand bender that was used to make the trebel clef (sp?) on my bed project. Handy tool and simple to make. This was designed by Steve Norquist, a member of the Mississippi Fore Council, a Blacksmith organization. He said that it was born out of necessity.

The bending pins are on 3" centers but can be varied for different radius bends.

[Royal Fe]

Shot with bender assembled.

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Back side of bender

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bender in action

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further along in action

[Dave Haak]

Hand Bender

Royal Fe,

Nice project. Is the tubing 1"? How about the piece you're bending? 1/4" X 1"? 3/16" X 1"? Pins 1/2"?

Using heat?

Thanks.

Dave

[Guest]

That's cool, Duke...I wanna build one...give me some more dimensions.

[GWOL]

I want one too!

Any specs on the design would be great, perfect idea for a project to build more projects! Keep up the great work.

[Royal Fe]

The tubing is 3/4", don't know thickness of the material but it felt light compared to rebar!. Pins are 1/2" round stock and don't know the angle of the bend for the handles. Steve told me he thought it was 45 deg but confessed to "what ever the saw was set". He told me that he was using a "bending fork" and having trouble keeping the work straigtht and thought about the pivot point with two handles, genious! and "out of necessity" The trouble is that the whole thing was trial and error. Good idea that I guess must be experimented with to make yours work.

The material being bent in the example is 1/4" thick and I think 1" wide no heat. Wasn't paying attention because I was focused on the trebel cleff. but I was using 3/8" round bar and was easily manipulating this material.

More dimensions on the way as soon as I get my hands on it again, but till then, Trial and error! Good luck worked for me.

[Old Man Stick]

Thats a prety good bender! I just think I will have to make one of those. Great project with a lot of use. Thanks for shareing that one with all of us here.

OMS

[russell]

OMS just saw your avatar,real nice! But just what is he shoveling?

[Old Man Stick]

Originally posted by russell
OMS just saw your avatar,real nice! But just what is he shoveling?

Hes filling in Dead groundhog holes!

OMS

[ChadRat]

Great looking bender. I will definitely have to build one myself. How good is it for bending rebar? If ya spaced the pins differently will you get different sizes of bends?

[Dave Haak]

Hey russell!!

Say......what! You're now a GOLD MEMBER ..........the pig has run away........and this is your first post??? What.....you get so far and they reset your counter? .......or is this not the russell just NW of Charlotte?

Boy I'm glad you and mowjunk helped me get a high resolution image of the pig before he left. I've been having a lot of fun with it!

Have a good day.

Dave

[russell]

Hey Dave, shoot yeah I`m a Gold Member!!! I was on here one night and that movie was on and I though I have been wanting to put something on here beside junior member so I stole that right off the tv!

On that avatar, I kept gettin` the feeling that people was`nt taking me serious with that grinnin` pig lookin` at them.And momma said it hit a little too close to home!

Glad you`re getting some use and fun out of it. Gonna have to get a digital camera,of course though if I put my picture on here ,ya`ll might start hollerin` bring the pig back!!!



Have a good`un,
russell