Bending 1 4 Inch Aluminum Rod

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Bending 1 4 inch aluminum rod.

Say that you are doing just one 45 or 90 bend. The eastwood rod forming tool is a high quality industrial style tool capable of generating a powerful leveraged force to create 180 or greater repeatable bends in mild steel stainless steel and aluminum rods up to 3 8 diameter and flat stock up to 1 2 wide and 3 16 thick. For effective use though builders need to be able to bend the rods. A good quality tubing bender would work.

Cut the rod 1 4 longer than needed for this it would be 71 4. This will give you a nice bend. Grain direction bend line should go across the grain for the best bend having said that a typical sharp 90 bend on a piece of 1 8 aluminum sheet should be a minimum 1 8 inside radius use either 3003 or 5052 ideally the bend line should go across the grain. I bend metal frequently in my shop and i have never found quarter inch solid bar to be a problem to bend no matter whether its stainless or mild steel.

1 4 aluminum would be easier. Either will work harden and break if bent at too small a radius. Aluminum is a lightweight metal with a strong weight to strength ratio that makes it useful in many manufacturing processes from auto aftermarket installations such as roll bars to the construction of hiker backpacks. This is the rig for making 1 4 aluminum rod into small truss elements.

Zinc plated round rod these round rods are threadless circular these round rods are threadless circular rods in fixed lengths to suit a variety of applications. This is the rig for making 1 4 aluminum rod into small truss elements. Makes tight bends without kinking. For 1 4 rod stock make the peice 1 4 longer for each bend.

Mark the rod back 3 1 8 from one end and 3 7 8 the end. Specialized design for smaller tubing such as automotive fuel line air conditioning and refrigeration. You will loose that 1 4 of material in the bend. They are commonly used as plant stakes tent pegs dowel pins or axles.

The bender bends from 0 120 with reference marks at 45 and 90 to provide accurate bends every time.