Finger Brake: Useful Tool or Waste of Money?

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Re: Finger Brake: Useful Tool or Waste of Money?

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Sweet! I love it, I want one too.
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Re: Finger Brake: Useful Tool or Waste of Money?

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Be prepared to start spending on tooling after you put it together.
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Re: Finger Brake: Useful Tool or Waste of Money?

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Bentworker wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:42 pm That turned out nice.

I always thought it would be neat to make a set of adjustable (acme thread) positive stroke stops for each side to make one of those little press brakes more like a real press brake. With stops you could have bend repeatability, and with different height stops on each side you could make compound bends with different radius on each side....
When there isn't a positive way of keeping the punch parallel, that works pretty well. Setting different heights doesn't make compound bends, but it does allow conical bends.

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Re: Finger Brake: Useful Tool or Waste of Money?

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I use a small digital level (Wixey style)to get accurate and consistent bends on my home made finger brake. It works pretty well.
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Re: Finger Brake: Useful Tool or Waste of Money?

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I bought one from Swag already welded. I haven't needed the finger feature yet, but it was fun adding it to my Harbor Freight press project.
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