How to bend
Aluminum Square Tubing
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like a he's bending aluminum what you
need to do it is one of these torches
works really well because it can stand
up on its own and you know it
automatically lights you know so you can
stand up there and do it alone
I definitely definitely need some
welding gloves because you're dealing
with hot material and I like to use some
flat pliers if we're going to use them
these pliers are kind of cool because
they see how they open and close flap
but I may not be able to use these it's
really hard to use with gloves on so I
mean I can hold it with one hand here
with a glove on and then bend it which
I'll do with that just to show you when
you get to the second or third bin okay
so you need it for
about 20 to 30 seconds
and you only get one shot if you have to
bend it twice
it'll probably break so you didn't mind
it make your bed boys and then they will
I could throw off the yoke or my hand or
my hands so don't throw it off right
here at 7 seconds 30 seconds I count two
I count to 20
you just bend it once once all i've been
in my aluminum don't look at it this way
just a little extra tweak in there and
it's already starting to cool a little
bit it's still too hot to touch you bend
it once if you try and bend it two or
three times it's over it'll just break
off and we can loom them too much don't
eat up the next one here
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or a can
while
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it's still quite not quite hot enough it
shits in about 30 seconds so try to
match up down here I bent that's how I'm
doing my curtain rods now if you were
going to do this repetitively you want
to take a steel plate and put pins on it
and then just bend it around each pin so
if I end up making more of these I'll
probably bend it with a with a pin board
so it'd be a lot faster you just put it
around put it down in there and bend it
spinning around the pins and and then
you're done and then it'll be obviously
be the same so but this is how you've
been to aluminum if you have a little
project you want to bend aluminum it
bends once keep that in mind and you
know feel like I want to heat that up
again and Bend it again more than likely
it's just going to break it's going to
weaken it so much too that it's just
going to be really fragile
in fact so let me show you this real
steep band I got to do real quick here
market I'll just go ahead and mark it
real quick
I'll just put a little mark on my mantle
so I can see
then I'll just go ahead and heat up that
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all right
that way
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well
20 beds 10 milliseconds
thirty seconds of the play
like great even bid sorry guys I had to
particularly with camera the grandma
Heatherton tears
we'll start very well
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it's the only way to get exactly you if
you do without heating it then you're
going to have problems so go ahead and
make my bend there match it up to the
other one right first set work one way
around do all the bends I need to make
pieces done that's pretty much how you
do it keep bending aluminum alright I'll
talk to you guys in the next video
