Fun with Fly Presses ! A couple of simple tools for bending & forming.

The first job shown here is making a couple of shallow bends in handles cut from 13mm x 5mm (or 1/2" x 3/16") flat steel bar. The tool is basically a vee bending tool but with a round bar used at the top to give a gentler bend. The bottom tool (the die) was made by welding some angle "iron" pieces to a steel plate with some brackets added so that an adjustable stop plate can be screwed in place.
The second job is making 4 bends in small aluminium plates in one "hit". The top tool, or punch, is a milled steel block welded to a spigot (that fits in the ram of the press). The die is just some suitably sized steel strips bolted through a base plate with a couple of angle pieces on each side to locate the part.
Both tools shown here are bolted to Hunton bolsters which are then mounted on the presses.

[@craigtate5930]

Cool lil press

[@callumdavies-russell4205]

Have you tried bending 5251h22 alu at near to 90 degrees. Wondering how some 5mm 5251 will cope with that sort of bend on a fairly tight radius?

[@MidEngineering]

Just tried a small scrap piece & it's pretty grainy on the outside of the bend with an internal radius of about 3.5mm...

[@callumdavies-russell4205]

@@MidEngineering great thanks. I've been wondering how to make a solid alu bracket forto support my roof rack. Don't really want to weld them so I'll order a few scraps and give them a go. Thanks for your help