The parts would have been perfect for fabrication in a press brake except for the 4 mm thickness of the plate steel, which was a little much for his smallish brake. To make the bending a little ...

You walk to the brake department, where you see piles of work-in-process. Stacks of panels of multiple thicknesses sit with ...

To be sure, no matter what tooling you throw at it, a bench vise is a poor substitute for a real press brake. Such machine ... But the ability to make small bends in lighter materials with ...