Bending Stainless Steel Rod With Heat

You can make simple bends in iron and steel using nothing more than a torch to heat and soften the metal.

Bending stainless steel rod with heat.

The stronger the steel the more the bend will approximate a v while the weaker the steel the more the bend will look like a u 2. How to bend a stainless steel rod step 1. Place the two bolts an inch apart in your vise and tighten sufficiently so that the bolts will not shift. Stainless steel is even harder to bend.

The u bolt is to be 300mm 1 long. Position the rod in the vise between the bolts at the place where you would like to have the bend in the rod. A cold rolled bar is shinier than a hot rolled bar but is also harder to bend. Stainless is weak in tension when heated and the mateial hot tears.

Round bar flat bar sheet and plate can be bent using a press brake bending machine or ring rolling. Put on your safety glasses and leather gloves. Can this kind of bending be done cold without cracking. One trick is to heat primarily on the inside of the bend rather than the outside.

Or would that be preferable to heat bending. With a soapstone pencil mark a line across the stock to indicate the center of the bend. And would heat bending weaken the ss tensile properties. Light the oxy acetylene torch with the striker and set the torch to a neutral.

Bar and flat bending of stainless steel. Bending a 316 stainless steel rod 10mm 3 8 dia to a tight radius to make a u bolt that fits inside a 50mm 2 dia pipe. Clamp the stock in a vise. 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.

Due to work hardening bending should be done quickly. With extreme caution light the torch and apply the heat to the area of. Clamp the stainless steel rod into the vise with the area you need to bend resting against the side of the vise. Light the torch and adjust it to a neutral flame.