Small Roll Bender

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I think I mentioned recently about buying a small Roll Bender. Need to make a few U brackets out of 25 x 3mm flat bar. Well after I got it, it was obvious it needed a little fine tuning so I took it apart, cleaned up all the rough edges and gave the body parts a new coat of paint. Next I discover it has grease nipples and holes for them to screw into. Good you might think, but they are blind holes so I guess it was the thought that counts. Didn't do anything about this and just lubricated what was necessary and put it back together. Can just add a bit of oil to shafts etc occasionally. Tried to bend a bit of 1/4" round just as a test but this was a bit of a failure as the bar tended to twist doing this and not produce a neat flat circle. Maybe some sort of guide can be made. Next was an experiment with a bit of 25 x 3mm flat aluminium. It was then I discovered that when rolling it fouls the head of top bolt. Solution to this was change the Socket Head to a Hex Head bolt. This allows just enough clearance for the inner edge of the flat. Waiting on brother to buy the steel flat to test on that.

Here's a pic of the bender with the offending bolt circled. These are available on ebay and elsewhere but I have noticed that some have Socket Head and some have a Hex Bolt fitted.
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