Sheet Metal Brake Bending Brake 30inch x 0.05inch Manual Sheet Metal Bender Tool

First time bending sheet metal. Project completed according to plan. Supplied my own clamps and this tool worked great on 30 gauge galvanized steel.

My first Home Break and I'm impressed by the size and design of the material and the Fingers. Simple to Use. I Had to Hang some cabinets and had no Studs on the wall for the cabinet. So, I made metal Brackets that anchored to the Ceiling Joists. It worked great. The Home Depot Designer was Impressed and The Cabinet guy liked my work. Nice tool. I need to get my welder up and running and make some ducting for my Shop. It is Cold Right Now.

Great product for the price, the clamps are flimsy. It would be awesome to have an attached material hold down for repetitive work.

all is ok

This is a nice product for the money. It is not well suited for repetitive tasks as, the pressure bar needs to be positioned after each bend when the clamps are released. The product is well made, but it would be nice if they could solve the few design flaws that are keeping this from becoming an outstanding product.

Fácil de usar con su mesa que le hice perfecto Gracias Joe Gonzalez

We bought this for our son (from his Amazon list), it is heavy and looks to be well made. The clamps that come with it are a bit flimsy but it's the Brake itself that was needed. Shipping was quick.

Finally got this thing out of the box. Coated in oil, used brake clean to remove same, only it also softens and removes the cheap blue paint that is over sprayed on the working ends.Paint got into the threads for the handles on the end castings, had to chase them with a tap for the handle rods to go in.Bent some 29" duct sheet metal, does give crisp bents at outer ends where clamped, centers leave much to be desired due to flexing of the clamped down bar Going to have to modify the clamp bar which is flat welding on another flat to make it an inverted T and see if that stiffens it a bitThe moving surface actually goes well beyond 90 degrees which was a pleasant surprise.Thinking of drilling some holes at each end and welding in a nut on the underside, then adding two small springs and bolts to act as clamp down instead of the C clamps provided. Will reduce the working width to about 34 inches but allow a much sharper bend to about 135 degrees.Conclusion is that this is good enough for simple jobs at this price point, just don't expect it to do what the 300 and up machines can do.With the mods it might prove to be even more useful. The cheap C clamps are a pain as they are loosey goosey. Best to do the mod or use better quality and smaller clamps.

I bought this specific to bend some aluminum flat stock to make boxes to glue to my vinyl fences where the latches are as the matches kept pulling away from the fend because they had nothing solid to grab onto.As you can see in my photo this brake did a nice job on the aluminum flat stock with nice and clean 90 degrees bends.Pay attention to the listing and the thickness this will support because of you try to exceed it like I attempted it won't work. The brake held up but when I tied to exceed the thickness rating the handles that you pull on started to bend. No damage done to the brake but you need to set your expectations according to what is listed as it's max thickness for the material you are working on.The clamps it came with were not that good and as I have a wooden bench I just screwed the brake into place while using it as you can see in my photo as that gave me the best leverage.

I bought this metal brake rather than buying custom window deletes for my Skoolie conversion. It worked very well to make several window deletes reusing the metal I removed from my bus ceiling. Total cost was less than the cost of two window deletes. Would definitely buy again. Super simple for a beginner to figure out, too.