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10th Apr 2021, 02:53 PM #16Most Valued Member
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Angle on the upper die/knife is about 60deg, the material is 16mm hot rolled.
The lower die is 40x4 angle.
Haven’t tried anything thin on it but going by the rule of 8 (die opening should by about 8x material thickness) it would need a much narrower lower die.
Heaps of info online on press brake tooling and methods.
Ideally the tooling should be hardened, but for home use generally mild steel works fine.
Don’t use a fine edged MS upper die for bending rod though
Steve
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