How to bend
Aluminum Flat Bar
The Wrong / Right Way to Bend Aluminum
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the wrong way and the right way to bend
a lumen I take a look at the wrong way
oh well that did it that was the wrong
way a costly mistake screw up now you
might be wondering what this piece of
metal is about well this is a the right
way to bend it and the complete project
this is going to be a mounting plate for
the equipment you see here and x2
underwater camera some flotation and
Dorothy frog light and flex arm now what
I did is I made some successful bins
Cole bins with this material right here
which is 3/4 by 1/8 inch a thinner
material a slightly different alloy I
made another bin here with this item you
see a double Bend because I'm gonna I
can attach another light right here now
what I should have done is this alloy
here may have been it's thicker the may
bend it's a slightly different alloy and
it may have had more tensile strength
and less yield so when I bent it snap
now well I could have done when I was
fabricating this and cutting the pieces
out I could have taken this scrap piece
put it in the vise and bent it and it
would have saved me all that time and
effort anyway I went ahead and put the
time in and put together a whole new
project and I put it between a tooth
paper lumber like this to insulate it in
the vise now if you take this piece of
metal and you heat it the heat will go
from here to here all through it very
very fast if you have it clamped and
advice that he will transfer into the
vise and you lose some of your
sure this way by having it insulated
I'll have a little bit longer time to
retain that heat and make my bin now to
make my bin I needed to come to the
right temperature to make that to reach
that temperature I didn't have one of
them fancy crayon items that you put on
here and it melts at a certain
temperature but I use a trick we use
years back and when we are TIG welding
this material I took and I heated it and
when I put wood on there and it made a
sear mark I knew I was approximately 400
degrees I hated it a little bit more
than made the bin let's go ahead and
have to take a look at how we made the
bends
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put this on here I did a thought mark
and
ha
okay
we give it hot enough to wear chars and
that's a little trick I have I learned
that long fifty years ago from a guy
working them the fence plant good weld
good TIG weld magnesium that's a pretty
good deal when you can TIG weld
magnesium heats oh yes
too fast
that's been it let it cool off slow
pretty even now all i gotta do is mount
my equipment to it and that'll be the
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