Curved Flange Bender

[@michaelleary4930]

It's a honor and a privilege to learn from your videos. Please take time to do a video and introduce your self on camera and share your story with us. My grandfather's and elder relatives were some of my dearest teachers. I'm from a tiny farming town in Idaho. Grew up 100 percent farmer do it yourself stuff. making tools, equipment, and doing things much the way the early pioneers relatives, and my pass down legacy was is VERY dear to my heart! Now days, the generations are starved for the DIY stuff that many that learned this way tested and proven methods from the depression Era and even older are prepping us all for what many of us can feel in our bones in the economy coming. We all got a taste of it with the Bush Era gas prices and war crashing the economy a few times. This knowledge pass down is appreciated by the EDUCATED and MATURES viewers. Please, do a Biography and share your story behind these amazing skills, trades, and tactics. And may I add, THANK YOU for sharing these!!

[@confabrication]

Thank you Michael for your lengthy (and flattering) comment. Unfortunately however, I'm not envisioning doing an autobiography as to do it fully would take nothing short of a book, and I simply don't have the time or ability to do that. However I'm very happy to hear that you're also the DIY type, ('one of us'), and one who likes to pass on dying skills to the younger generations. That's all good, and it's positive comments like yours that will help encourage me to make some more videos. I'm glad you're enjoying what I do and that you think the younger folks might be learning something from these videos.. Thank you again.

[@norwamoom]

Thank you for doing this video. Your tool is amazing. I have needed to bend a curved piece on sheet metal several different times in the past. Now I hope I can make one of your amazing tools for my self.

[@jimb9265]

Excellent engineering and a great contraption!

[@confabrication]

Thanks for positive comment.

[@angelonicassio7131]

This is a super idea and wayyyy faster than a bead roller, even an electric one...

[@Alatinu]

Thankyou very much Brian, I will atempt to make one of this ! Be careful, I hope Health for you and yours !. Greeting from Cordoba, Argentina !

[@a.p.r.-aftermarketpartsrev2819]

Props on that little beauty. Great idea.

[@RustyInventions-wz6ir]

Just found your channel and Subscribed. Very nice work

[@mikemagee6758]

hi Brian just the tool to bend the flange on the door of my BMW Isetta thank you mike

[@salvadorhirth1641]

Thanks for taking the time and effort. Well done!

[@jdwisdom9433]

A must have tool! Thank You, JD

[@wanderleyapparecidovieira2282]

I use my beading machine Eastwood,with a pair of beading roller I've donne ,and the flanging results is pretty good ! Simple !

[@doughunter3967]

hi Brian, nice work... I saw a tool similar to this 30 years ago...a body man friend had it...it was about 1/3 the size of yours and had lightly knurled rollers , at least one set driven by turning a bolt head...it could be clamped on to a radiused wheel well opening and would form a 90 degree flange by turning the bolt head...i sure wish I had paid more attention to how it was made because I could sure use one now...God bless the good...doug (kanada)

[@confabrication]

Thanks for interesting response, Doug. Have never seen anything like the one you describe, but it would have been useful, even though it might have been slow.

[@Nearesttowtruckcom]

Hi Brian, can you think of a small hand tool to make a 90 bend in aluminum sheet? Can use a brake lathe but too big to tranport when only have one window to wrap. Thank you

[@confabrication]

Sorry, Nearesttowtruck.com , without seeing the job and knowing all the details I cannot be of assistance.

[@78dwk]

that is a awsome tool,great idea,&well built,thanks for sharing ,,godbless

[@craftsmanvenezuela2028]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, greetings from Venezuela

[@mikejustice1196]

That CNC block was magical carved out with his pocket knife?

[@johnspargo5876]

Awesome Tool Mr Davidson. What manner of @#$% would give this a thumbs down.!!! THANK YOU SIR!

[@gastonmatbrai]

Nice tool. Thank you for sharing.

[@shedendman]

WOW i could so do with one of these,thats one top tool

[@rickadams1881]

What is the block made out of, it looks like aluminium

[@alejandrobavassonepotedequ1969]

Hi, Great job !!!! Do you have plans with the measures? I would very much like to be able to become one myself. Thank you very much !!!

[@confabrication]

Sorry, Alejandro, I did not make plans (other than a sketch on a piece of paper) when I made it. I just designed it around the bearings, and bits & pieces, etc., that I had in my workshop. Thanks a lot for the positive comment.

[@BC5391]

nice idea, larger version of a door edge tool

[@marianodiaz461]

Hi, what is the max mat thickness?

[@confabrication]

I'd say 20 s.w.g. - maybe 18 gauge with a struggle.

[@shamarao123]

Where can I get this toll?

[@Miata822]

Clever as hell.

[@rustybenz4532]

Can you make me one , how much is this , where about are you

[@confabrication]

Sorry, Rusty Benz, I don't make anything for sale. I'm in the U.K.

[@vwpac]

love the tool ...make stops for your work bench tho

[@rustybenz4532]

Ok, No Worries , I am in West London , do you have any plans for these or the bearing sizes basically dimensions etc..., its a nice tool to make some panels , rather than banging it out , I saw something like yours but it could be extended for more depth, any way it a great product , Good Luck mate and thanks for answering

[@confabrication]

O.k., Rusty Benz, here are a few basic dimensions :- The block is 3" x 2 5/8"x 2" ; The 3 larger bearings are 40 x 17 x 12 mm wide ; The 4 small ones are 22 X 8 x 7 mm wide; The small bearings are at 2 1/8" centres. Hope this goes some way to helping you.

[@Fashionpoint1997]

hii Brian, How that 2 bearing rollers able to perform bend ? i just don't get it.. can you enlighten me pls ? thanks andrew

[@confabrication]

I'll try, Andrew, (Hallelujah Alpha Omega To the Top). Imagine the rollers were two square blocks of steel. You press upwards and a bend is formed. The rollers just make this process continuous. I can't think of any other way of explaining it, but I hope this will help.

[@127069]

a hand held ginny wheel!

[@AllodialTitle]

Brian, great tool. Thanks for sharing. Do you sell these by any chance?

[@confabrication]

Thanks a lot for favourable comments, PIGEON, but I only make tools like this for my own use and not for sale - sorry. I post these videos in the hope that they might help someone to make something similar themselves, just as I myself have been inspired to make some things from videos posted by others on KZbin.

[@AllodialTitle]

Many thanks.........

[@paulocesarseverosoares767]

Muito bom esse equipamento.

[@yurycz8933]

+ Nice . I will take this idea

[@owpeterj]

Don't ever slip....

[@fpreston9527]

My thoughts too.

[@CCROSS5882]

Great tool

[@lalbahadursingh8848]

Very help full thanks a lot

[@fender1325]

Fantastic!

[@roxana7594]

master of the univers

[@simonabboud5987]

I don’t see it in action

[@confabrication]

It's in action from 1.00 to 1.30 !