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I bent a flat yesterday with a friend. it was the first one I had ever done. he made a very simpel fixture to bend it with. He thinks kind of like me, so the fixture is NOT over designed and complicated. it is the MOST simpal method I have seen yet. we did NOT push the flat into a slot with block, the problems I saw with that was honestly it seemed to me that it realy should have more than one slot to bend the flat in more than one pass. like qa set of dies.and then if it was tight enough to give a nice sharp corned on the bottom then it would be too tight going in. it seemed to me that the flat would streach or even sheer a little possably too. pushing it into a slot the finished diameter on the first pass , well it just seemed like it would be less stressfull to push up the entire side instead of sheering it only at the fold point.
instead of this method we wraped the flat around a block from the outside. useing a method similar to the way a brake works, supporting the side of the reciever as it goes up. we did both sides and had a prety nice corner. then we left the block in the reciever and went to the press. we set the reciever on its side and placed a 1/2" plate on top of it and pressed it tight, this gave us exact perfict corners. NO radious at all, instead , an exact 90 degree , I mean tight, final step was to use the same type bending method to fold the top rails down. we did not press them tight because of the angle to the bottom of the reciever so we will need to make a wedge block and we can press them tight too. but honestly they were tight enough for my likeing. I then tapped a little bit with a hammer through a hard plastic pad and they tightened up the the block perfict. then slide out the block. done.
no it was not my design or even my block but it is similar to my methods. "uncomplicated" Too simpal to go wrong, that is how we like it. :thumbup1: and results were number one. the only thing that required any real precision care was to place the flat on the block before locking it tight, and a few alignment pins would even make it so you could just about make a perfict reciever in your sleep. wow.. it is funny how sometimes another guy or often a new guy can look at something and see a totaly new method that is so much easyer way than the old standard.
great work , great idea, thanks for the use of your custom tool. :thankyou: :thankyou: :thankyou: :thankyou:
I do not think it is appropriate for me to post his name myself but he may post about the block himself later.
P.S. another reciever means what????
ANOTHER KIT!!!!!!! :thumbup1:
instead of this method we wraped the flat around a block from the outside. useing a method similar to the way a brake works, supporting the side of the reciever as it goes up. we did both sides and had a prety nice corner. then we left the block in the reciever and went to the press. we set the reciever on its side and placed a 1/2" plate on top of it and pressed it tight, this gave us exact perfict corners. NO radious at all, instead , an exact 90 degree , I mean tight, final step was to use the same type bending method to fold the top rails down. we did not press them tight because of the angle to the bottom of the reciever so we will need to make a wedge block and we can press them tight too. but honestly they were tight enough for my likeing. I then tapped a little bit with a hammer through a hard plastic pad and they tightened up the the block perfict. then slide out the block. done.
no it was not my design or even my block but it is similar to my methods. "uncomplicated" Too simpal to go wrong, that is how we like it. :thumbup1: and results were number one. the only thing that required any real precision care was to place the flat on the block before locking it tight, and a few alignment pins would even make it so you could just about make a perfict reciever in your sleep. wow.. it is funny how sometimes another guy or often a new guy can look at something and see a totaly new method that is so much easyer way than the old standard.
great work , great idea, thanks for the use of your custom tool. :thankyou: :thankyou: :thankyou: :thankyou:
I do not think it is appropriate for me to post his name myself but he may post about the block himself later.
P.S. another reciever means what????
ANOTHER KIT!!!!!!! :thumbup1:
