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Posted by mm on November 12, 2006, 11:44 pm
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:29:06 GMT, "-zero"
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>> bending 1/2 inch wide stock to a 3/8 inch radius
>>
>> I need to make a bracket for rear turn signals for my new-to-me '69
>> Honda cb450. I'm going to use a steel rod? [I don't know what you
>> call it. The Home Depot cash register calls it "flats"] 1/2"W by
>> 1/8"T x about 18"L, and I need to bend it twice, 90 degrees at each
>> location, to make a rather square C shape, but the corners have to
>> have a 3/8" radius (to look good where it wraps around the luggage
>> rack. Can't figure out how to do this, and don't want to try too many
>> times.
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> Get yourself a small torch kit with a bottle of mapp gas (yellow tank),
I might even have a bottle, just waiting for an occasion to use it!
This could be it. :-)
>and in the same area as you picked up your flat bar, find a short piece of
>3/8" round stock.
You mean 3/4 inch, right? So the radius is 3/8.
> Vise up the flat stock pointing straight up, check that it's at 90° to
>the
>jaws of the vice then heat it at the bend until it's the color of your
>favorite orange.
I don't like oranges. Why are there always problems at every stage?
>Put the round rod (your 3/8" radius) in front of it
> and easily pull the flat down towards you till your happy.
I"m getting happy already. Thanks a lot.
>-zero
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