Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap Book 7 - Designing & Building the Sheet Metal Brake

 This one uses no castings. It’s a welding project using standard structural steel and common hardware items to build a compact portable bending brake.

Its a 15" brake as detailed but you can scale up or down in size within limits. Definitely not a heavy duty brake but you can make neat bends in 26 gauge metal to form duct, boxes, drawers, belt guards and dozens of items for your shop projects Some have beefed up the leaves and pivots so that metal as heavy as 20 gauge can be bent sharply.

The complete series of 7 titles describes how to build a complete set of machine tools at very little cost, using scrap metals. The series is in a fixed sequence, in that each machine helps build the next, but each book stands on its own, if you already have access to workshop equipment. As described, quite a lot of home foundry work is involved, hence this book.  Worldwide sales of this series now exceed 100,000, so 99, 999 other people like it..... All titles well illustrated. All Paperback.