Hie, I made both of them, but only the brake is based on Gingery's book. I can bend a 1m sheet of iron with 1.5mm thick. I can go up to 2mm on narrower pieces of metal. I uploaded some pictures to the list a while back, they must still be there.
The real trick is to a proper brake is to make the center of the pivot on the exact corner of the base table, as already mentioned on another mail.
Good luck. I can upload more pictures if you want.
José, from sunny (unfortunently broke) Portugal.
From: Bradley
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:04 PM
To: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [gingery_machines] Gingery Brake- anybody make one? ( and roller?)
Greetings-
I have not yet got back to the shaper since I am trying to get CNC router up and running to make patterns and it is stalled while looking to build a working computer for free...
but I did get a mig welder and am fxin to rebuild my truck cab mounts and rusted out floor boards. I want to use scrap sheet metal left over pieces (read that as "Free" material") and then use a brake to bend them then mig weld the new parts onto the old parts.
So I wondered if anybody has had success with homemade brakes- maybe a gingery model or any cheap and easy to build maybe just make cheap easy finger brake would be good enough for small volume material forming.. I also have some pipe that may make a nice metal roller to roll curved pieces of metal. this reminds me I have a punch press I need to get running and tyr to make a power shear out of it...
so many projects.. so little time...
Please report how you like your brake and if you have any pics posted on it.
Regards
Bradley
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