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    work table forming break

    This is probably more of a tool tip than a tool. What do you do when you need to make a 90° bend in a 8ft sheet of 14ga steel and your break will only do 7ft widths.
    What I did was to clamp the sheet down to my tilting worktable using an angle iron and the stick of rect tubing as a stiffener.
    then Ironed the bend in using a 2" dead blow hammer,
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    I clamped a discarded part to the edge of the sheet and pulled it down with ratchet straps while ironing in the bend
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    close enough to work with
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