I need a sheetmetal brake...

[Toolmaker51]

And capacity to cost ratio is outside scope of a non-commercial toolroom. But I keep looking. This I found, but name given returns next-to-no results for a manual machine. An unconventional design, is interesting at the same time it is questionable. So I put the question to the largest diverse body of craftpersons known.


In the same broad time period of course a shear is required. Cost again is a factor, 16 gauge 48" wide stomp units seem over the threshold from lightweight to medium capacity. Plenty of 36" inchers are floating around, too narrow in off the shelf material. I have found that Gap frame shears are capable of incremental slitting and I can design fabrications around that.