[TheForge] hossfeld benders

[Daniel Kretchmar]

Dave,
      The hook ends up with a half circle about 18 inches in diameter. I feed the stock into the bender and bend about 4 inches of stock at time.  Each bend seems to be about 20-25 degrees of the circle. That means about 7 bends to get a half circle  It bends really fast (by hand)and easily. I am using a piece of pipe that I have flattened to insert into the bending arm to extend the arm to about 4 feet. That extra leverage is enough to bend 1/2 square stock on the diagonal without a lot of effort.  

I have been thinking about getting the hydralic attachment to make it even easier, but I am not sure it would be worth the money.  Hand bending seems pretty fast an easy as it is.

Dan


Irontree Works
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