Simple homemade brake

Some of you are just getting started with metal work on your vehicles. This is a trick I learned from an older German tin basher. It is what he learned on when he did his apprenticeship in the old country. Nothing more than a simple piece of angle iron cut in the middle to form a circle, held in a vise with the small size. I use two vices for the 48"er one at each end. Simply clamp the metal you want to bend and strike lightly with a hammer, gradually from one end to the other till you reach the angle desired. Hope this helps....

doesn't get any simpler than that. Gotta build a couple of these.

Now that's old school,I will be making them soon. Thank you

I like the idea. Now I'm thinking just two pieces of angle with a hole on each end with locating bolts through them.

Thanks for the Idea thats going to help out a lot.

Thats slick

I have pretty much the same thing except I cut the angle iron in half then bolted together with a thin washer inbetween. works excellent

Thats really cool, I can see I'm gonna pick up alot at this forum.

Got a stack of bed rails in the shop. Gonna be busy makin some of these. I use bed rails for everything. They are free for the pickins all the time around here.

great idea. thanks for sharing

i used the same idea when i was fabbing my floorpan. i just used 6 foot lengths of 2x4 so i could make continous bends the length of the pan on either side

Those are great. Im going to make myself several.[cl[cl[cl[cl