How to bend
Metal Back Into Shape
How to Bend Thick Metal Without Traditional Tools - Kevin Caron
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Hey
Wow client gentleman was here visiting
the other day pops out of North Carolina
and he emailed me after he got home and
he said hey let me share something with
you because I don't have all these thing
all this fancy equipment like you do and
he said I wanted to bend the railroad
spike and this is what I did to get the
job done so his suggestion is really
probably one of the simplest things I've
ever seen I mean I learned this back
when I was in high school you've got
something big and heavy and solid and
you can't bend it you don't have any
machinery to bend it with one way to get
around it is to just go ahead and cut
slices in it not quite all the way
through don't cut it in two that's
embarrassing
depending on how close you space your
slices in here will give you a smoother
curve closer they are smoother the curb
is and it's easy to cut really just by
four and a half inch angle grinder and a
cut-off wheel on it just clamp it in the
vise don't be real careful brace
yourself and just do your slices do your
cuts along there depending on how you
want to how you want it to how you want
it to bend
yeah have your safety equipment on
so you can see a hammer is one way you
know you start on you start on the side
that's got to salt an edge on it no you
don't want to you don't want to bend it
where you cut it that'll open the cuts
up so come to the opposite side tap it
over close those cuts up so of course
once you get this bend over and all
these you know these outside edges touch
if you want to bend it more it's real
simple you just come back and just when
you're your angle grinder just hit that
outside edge where it's touching open
that area up a little
don't go all the way back inside just
get that outside edge you can also just
do it with a crescent wrench and what
you could do this with like a railroad
spike go a solid spot you know solid
broad you know square stock you know
round stock whatever anything that's too
big is like put over your knee then all
you're going to do is come back and just
weld everything back up grind it all
back down again you got plenty of little
curves and twists and turns in there so
pops great tip thanks for sharing I hope
that points a couple year in the right
direction if you're contemplating
bending something really big and heavy
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