The fact that the camera work is sub par and all over the place and that I still managed to learn more from this short tutorial than I have from a lot of other tutorials including the instructions from the manufacturer says a lot. Thank you for taking the time to make this, it really helped. ( also your description of the instructions given with the tool was spot on. )
Thanks for the video. Painting the pins and right angle bender red made it look like better quality. However, the book does illustrate the 90° bend exactly as you show, but only in reverse, though you do mention the reverse way. But at least we all now know that we don't have to always pull from the right.
Great video,short sweet and to the point. I bought mine about 15 years ago. The instructions looked like it was written by a kindergartner with a crayola that had been xeroxed about 1000 times before I ever got it.
I just figured it out. When bending flat bar that's much longer than the video shows at a 90 deg angle, you can still do it as long as it's 1/8" thick or less, but if you're bending the 1/4" thick flat bar at a 90 deg, and you want to place the bend much farther away from the end of your work piece than this video shows, then to get the end of the piece to slide past the closed end of the loop on the tool you must avoid using the silver die on the black pin of the tool. Use the black pin alone
I made a sharp bend once, then forgot how I did it and stared at the bender for a long time trying to picture the setup. Thanks for this video. Next time I'll take pics when I set it up right for reference.
Thanks for the clues!!! I have a very 'geometrically oriented' brain, but this gadget baffled me, and the 'instructions' made it only worse. LOL!! Your videos make it all *understandable*. With your *clues*, bending 0.1" piano wire, with the 7/8" die on the fulcrum pin, and the 3" die on the outer pin, I could achieve up to a 320 deg bend, which is the limit of the 'right angle' attachment. :) :)
I just bought this cheap Chinese harbor Freight bender, but I have the bench top model which is the exact same thing as the one in this vid except for the floor pedestal. I can appreciate the effort made to post this video, but the only problem I see with the way it's being used here is that it's only good for making 90 degree bends that aren't anymore than about 4 inches away from the end of your work piece, because if the work piece extends longer than that, it cannot be done. Am I wrong?
to add to what I just said, if you use even the smallest diameter die that comes with the bender (which is the 7/8" one) it's too big to allow a 1/4" thick flat bar piece to slide past the heel of the loop in the handle of the tool. If you you use the black pin alone, it will allow you the extra clearance room to push your 1/4" thick work piece through and past the loop. Thanks to USMCDOC for posting the vid.
I ran out of space to fully explain my question in the last post. If the work piece extends more than four inches from the spot that's being bent, then it will crash up into the heel of the loop on the bender. Unless there's something I'm overlooking here(and if there is, then someone please correct me on this) there must be a better way to bend long pieces of flat bar steel with this tool other than the way it's being shown here. I agree that the instructions that came with this tool STINK!!!
Trying to bend a 13 3/4" x 1 1/2" x 1/4" piece of metal into a U shape to have 1 3/4 space and can only get one side to bend correctly. The bending anvil doesn't allow the for the 1/4" to pass through for the 2nd bend. It does fine bending a 1/8 x 1 1/2 flat bar into a U shape. Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you! I had given-up on the right angle feature! (your video also revealed I had put the base together backwards). Now maybe I'll have at least a few perfectly square custom brackets on my robot project. Using a vise with a hammer is not a good method for making brackets!
Yes the instructions are terrible, but I don't think the way that the video shows can be used for bending a 90 degree more than 4 inches from the end of the work piece that's in front of the tool where the loop is since the heel or closed end of the loop will get in the way.
Ok. once I set up the machine correctly for 90 degree angles, (using print outs from stills from this video), it was pretty damn easy. I used 1/8" by 1.5" construction steel to make 4 perfect right angle bends. I did 2 practice runs on some leftover material from a previous project. and then created my 4 Ls. Bolted back to back, they are now 2 perfect Ts. I used them to hold in place two stacks of barbells that I often need to transport in the back of my pick up. I'm sure a machine shop would have charged me more than the Under $100 that I spent on the machine. and now I have a metal bending machine!
You made a good video but I gotta tell you that I do not understand the confusion ... I've had this bender for two years and when I first got it I needed to bend 1/4 x 2 flat bar at 90 degrees ... I set up as the book showed and made 22 nice sharp bends and the pieces were three foot long with the bend in the center ... Nothing to it ... Pretty simple ... Just look at the book ...
Thanks for the tips. I know this tool is gold. I just have to learn and practice. And you can't blame manuals and instructions. Because we never read them! lol ("Men, Men, Men, Men, Manly Men, Men, Men"..
Instructions on just about EVERYTHING made in china is confusing. My daughter,,who is a BRAINIAC and LIVE to read instructions as she is a WHIZ at such things, started reading one from a Drone I bought for her son,,my GRANDSON. She said after a while "I think I am either having a stroke or this is SOME KINDA MESS UP translation". And there in is where the problem lies. Translation. You would think with all the items they ship to us, U.S. they would hire a BETTER Translator....LMAO
The Swedish manage to muck up instructions pretty badly without even using any words... assembling a piece of IKEA furniture with their nonsensical pictographs is about as difficult as pronouncing the name of the Gefülgėkgtïgnaargen bed frame you just bought.
The fact that the camera work is sub par and all over the place and that I still managed to learn more from this short tutorial than I have from a lot of other tutorials including the instructions from the manufacturer says a lot. Thank you for taking the time to make this, it really helped. ( also your description of the instructions given with the tool was spot on. )
My unit was purchased over 10 years ago and could not find the manual. I never could have figured it out, thank you for the video.
Thanks, what a pack of instructions, kept me from wasting an hour of my life and countless pieces of test material.
Thanks for the video. Painting the pins and right angle bender red made it look like better quality. However, the book does illustrate the 90° bend exactly as you show, but only in reverse, though you do mention the reverse way. But at least we all now know that we don't have to always pull from the right.
Thank God for TH-cam videos about different tool set up's and how-to videos
Great video,short sweet and to the point. I bought mine about 15 years ago. The instructions looked like it was written by a kindergartner with a crayola that had been xeroxed about 1000 times before I ever got it.
I just figured it out. When bending flat bar that's much longer than the video shows at a 90 deg angle, you can still do it as long as it's 1/8" thick or less, but if you're bending the 1/4" thick flat bar at a 90 deg, and you want to place the bend much farther away from the end of your work piece than this video shows, then to get the end of the piece to slide past the closed end of the loop on the tool you must avoid using the silver die on the black pin of the tool. Use the black pin alone
- I've been looking everywhere for this bend, Thanks!!
Thanks!! I bought one of these a while back and tried to use it just now but like you said, the instructions suck.
I've got to get myself one of these. I almost always need to bend something when fabricating with my everlast welders.
I made a sharp bend once, then forgot how I did it and stared at the bender for a long time trying to picture the setup. Thanks for this video. Next time I'll take pics when I set it up right for reference.
Ha Ha. I was going to say I did exactly the same thing- then I noticed it was me that posted this 10 months ago.
I'm stuck in a loop.
thanks for the instructions. just got mine the other week.
Thanks for the clues!!! I have a very 'geometrically oriented' brain, but this gadget baffled me, and the 'instructions' made it only worse. LOL!! Your videos make it all *understandable*. With your *clues*, bending 0.1" piano wire, with the 7/8" die on the fulcrum pin, and the 3" die on the outer pin, I could achieve up to a 320 deg bend, which is the limit of the 'right angle' attachment. :) :)
I just bought this cheap Chinese harbor Freight bender, but I have the bench top model which is the exact same thing as the one in this vid except for the floor pedestal. I can appreciate the effort made to post this video, but the only problem I see with the way it's being used here is that it's only good for making 90 degree bends that aren't anymore than about 4 inches away from the end of your work piece, because if the work piece extends longer than that, it cannot be done. Am I wrong?
Spot on ! Short sweet concise!
perfect, just what I needed
to add to what I just said, if you use even the smallest diameter die that comes with the bender (which is the 7/8" one) it's too big to allow a 1/4" thick flat bar piece to slide past the heel of the loop in the handle of the tool. If you you use the black pin alone, it will allow you the extra clearance room to push your 1/4" thick work piece through and past the loop. Thanks to USMCDOC for posting the vid.
Thank you very much for the video. The instructions are FUBAR, but now I can use this thing.
I really like that pain job, I think it helps visually for setup and use. What kind of paint did you use on it?
NICE VIDEO CAN IT BEND 1/2 SQ TUBE?
How about rebar.
I ran out of space to fully explain my question in the last post. If the work piece extends more than four inches from the spot that's being bent, then it will crash up into the heel of the loop on the bender. Unless there's something I'm overlooking here(and if there is, then someone please correct me on this) there must be a better way to bend long pieces of flat bar steel with this tool other than the way it's being shown here. I agree that the instructions that came with this tool STINK!!!
Trying to bend a 13 3/4" x 1 1/2" x 1/4" piece of metal into a U shape to have 1 3/4 space and can only get one side to bend correctly. The bending anvil doesn't allow the for the 1/4" to pass through for the 2nd bend. It does fine bending a 1/8 x 1 1/2 flat bar into a U shape. Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you! I had given-up on the right angle feature! (your video also revealed I had put the base together backwards). Now maybe I'll have at least a few perfectly square custom brackets on my robot project. Using a vise with a hammer is not a good method for making brackets!
always remember ,, IF it don't work one way,,,, TURN HER OVER,,, hehehe
como obtengo la maquina..soy de Ecuador..guayaquil..
Yes the instructions are terrible, but I don't think the way that the video shows can be used for bending a 90 degree more than 4 inches from the end of the work piece that's in front of the tool where the loop is since the heel or closed end of the loop will get in the way.
That is a useful video, thanks.
Ok. once I set up the machine correctly for 90 degree angles, (using print outs from stills from this video), it was pretty damn easy. I used 1/8" by 1.5" construction steel to make 4 perfect right angle bends. I did 2 practice runs on some leftover material from a previous project. and then created my 4 Ls. Bolted back to back, they are now 2 perfect Ts. I used them to hold in place two stacks of barbells that I often need to transport in the back of my pick up. I'm sure a machine shop would have charged me more than the Under $100 that I spent on the machine. and now I have a metal bending machine!
have u tried angle aluminum?
No I have not
I have done aluminum many times ...Before you start to bend heat the medal with a torch at the spot you are going to bend 1st or it will snap ..
first time i used mine I instantly broke that wedge shaped piece because I didn't watch this (or any other) video first
Can you bend 2" pipe with that?
You made a good video but I gotta tell you that I do not understand the confusion ... I've had this bender for two years and when I first got it I needed to bend 1/4 x 2 flat bar at 90 degrees ... I set up as the book showed and made 22 nice sharp bends and the pieces were three foot long with the bend in the center ... Nothing to it ... Pretty simple ... Just look at the book ...
Thanks for the tips. I know this tool is gold. I just have to learn and practice. And you can't blame manuals and instructions. Because we never read them! lol ("Men, Men, Men, Men, Manly Men, Men, Men"..
I spent all day trying to set one of these things up right still no joy instructions are rubbish
Holding the camera with one hand , while working with the other hand. No good.
Instructions on just about EVERYTHING made in china is confusing. My daughter,,who is a BRAINIAC and LIVE to read instructions as she is a WHIZ at such things, started reading one from a Drone I bought for her son,,my GRANDSON. She said after a while "I think I am either having a stroke or this is SOME KINDA MESS UP translation". And there in is where the problem lies. Translation. You would think with all the items they ship to us, U.S. they would hire a BETTER Translator....LMAO
The Swedish manage to muck up instructions pretty badly without even using any words... assembling a piece of IKEA furniture with their nonsensical pictographs is about as difficult as pronouncing the name of the Gefülgėkgtïgnaargen bed frame you just bought.
I could of cleaned you garage before you painted the pins.Sloppy garage sloppy work,clean it .
Thomas Lewis Get a life Thomas