[TheForge] hossfeld benders

[Dave Brown]

Thanks Dan.  Not having used or even seen a Hossfeld in use I was curious 
as to whether they did one long bend (i.e. make the hook in one fell swoop) 
or a series of bends.   In any event it seems much better than trying to 
accomplish the same effect using a bending fork.

Dave

At 07:52 12/18/01, you wrote:
>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
>
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