Finger Brake: Useful Tool or Waste of Money?
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Re: Finger Brake: Useful Tool or Waste of Money?
Sweet! I love it, I want one too.
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Re: Finger Brake: Useful Tool or Waste of Money?
Be prepared to start spending on tooling after you put it together.
Last edited by SteveHGraham on Wed Sep 18, 2019 8:59 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Finger Brake: Useful Tool or Waste of Money?
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.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....
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Re: Finger Brake: Useful Tool or Waste of Money?
I use a small digital level (Wixey style)to get accurate and consistent bends on my home made finger brake. It works pretty well.
Re: Finger Brake: Useful Tool or Waste of Money?
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.