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Very few people know how easy it is to create a powerful metal bending tool with just a few materials and basic skills. This DIY tutorial reveals a simple yet highly effective method for making your ...

As you know, adding a bend to a piece of metal makes it much more ridged. Bending metal can be done with a sheetmetal brake, a press brake, or even a few pieces of angle iron and some clamps, or a ...

If you want to bend metal to make shapes, you might use equipment like a brake. But if you don’t have one, no worries. You can still do a lot with common tools like a vise and torches. [Bwrus… ...

For nearly 100 years, scientists thought they understood everything there was to know about how metals bend. ... demonstrated that the rules of metal bending aren't so hard-and-fast after all.