The brake consists of a flat surface onto which the material is placed, and a clamping bar which will come down and hold the material firmly during the bend. This clamping action may be manual, ...

Forging, welding, milling, grinding; anything to remove metal or push it around from one ... The parts would have been perfect for fabrication in a press brake except for the 4 mm thickness ...

To be sure, no matter what tooling you throw at it, a bench vise is a poor substitute for a real press brake. Such machine tools are capable of working sheet metal and other stock into intricate ...