Interested in how to make a milling vise/vice for your jobshop?

Whilst this guy doesn’t have any exact plans in relation to building said tube bender form scratch, he does have plenty of pictures, information and is more than happy for you to ask any questions via email.

As he points out:

There are No Plans for this bender, none now, and none later.
I want you to think freely and create.

So off you go to try and cobble one together.

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UPDATE: More about tube bending including various calculators here.

……..Rosie the Riveter better watch out… I’M in the game now!!!

It’s brassy, it’s sassy and it’s a tinbashing blog written by one of only three female workers in her respective sheet metal union.

In fact, is it the only blog written by a female sheet metal worker?

I’ll hazard a guess that it might be.

Take a look here.

Here’s another new (well it was new when it first came to my attention) sheet metal blog, The Future is Forming.

“The Future is Forming,” presented by Engineering Quality Solutions, discusses sheet steel/aluminum and how they are used. EQS helps steel, aluminum and manufacturing companies make the most cost-effective use of the sheet metal specified and supplied for each application. EQS offers forming limit diagram (FLD) and circle grid/ thinning strain analysis, tooling buyoff assistance, steelmaking and formability training, holistic cost reduction, steel cargo damage claim analysis and problem arbitration resolution.

Also, as you’ll see once you get there, the blog is written by the head honcho himself, Danny Scaheffer.

And I must admit he seems like a rather nice chap.

There are one or two sites languishing in the bowels of Tinbasher Towers that I intend to give a mention to in the near future.

I don’t want anybody thinking I’ve been deliberately avoiding them or just downright ignorant.

Here’s one for all those of you who come here fully expecting to garner some useful information about sheet metal in its various guises as opposed to meandering bollocks about how I got dry humped by a German doctor.

Sheet Metal Guy now has a blog, which I suggest you read if you prefer your sheet metal actually about sheet metal.

You’d better believe it you bastions of blogdom - sheet metal officially now has its own niche.

Who’d have thought it?

It won’t be long before we can start having our own little summits y’know.