home made metal folder.

[Robins 55]

As requested i have started this thread for my home built sheet metal folder.

 

I could have bought a bench mounted folder, but they limit the width of steel, and the depth if making a tight box. You also can't make something like this with multiple angled bends, no cutting and welding were involved to make this panel.

 

It's a similar design I copied from a friend, made from various thick box section and plate. the ram is one of these gear pullers,

 

The lower 'V' block is a small section of proper press brake tooling i bought from scrap.

Unfortunately I couldn't find the upper part, so that's made using a 4" bolster chisel cut down. It works well but but just not as clean a fold, so i'm still looking for an upper piece of tooling to cut down in to different width.

 

Its very versatile making panels like these,

 

The downside is it takes a while to make a long fold due to the winding of the mechanism involved, but if i could find an upper 'V' tooling to make a wider piece that would help, and i see they do a hydraulic operated gear puller now so may invest in one of those one day

 

Any questions ask away. I'll try and get some pics up later of just the tool, these pics were taken intending to show the work piece not the tool

 

Panel work shown from my thread here for ease in future reference:

http://myoldmachine.com/topic/1495-transit-restoration-work/

Edited December 24, 2014 by Robins

[Stormin 4,458]

 

[meadowfield 1,900]

Ingenious!

[slf-uk 914]

Fantastic and straight forward idea, I wish I had thought of that. It would be good to see a close up of where the chisel mates with the tooling.

[Lauber1 51]

very clever setup

[Triumph66 1,256]

Daniel, I have seen your handiwork on your cars and your detailing is superb. I look forward to see more of your panels being created.

Nice work yet again.

Andrew