DIY Press Brake - How To Build A Press Brake 

Great and simple design I'm going to make one myself really useful tool for a fabricator.

Nice work! I like these videos.

Haha over here in Massachusetts just getting out of the 50's and its june

Good Project. Save your arm and get a air over hydraulic 20 ton jack. I got mine a HF and bend a lot of 1/4" HRS. Thanks

Для таких заготовок можно домкрат с меньшим усилием. Будет быстрее опускаться и подниматься.

Great video. Gonna have to make that!

I love it....

Love it Doug! A bottle jack press will actually be our next RU-vid video too but we’re using it for squishing plastic into moulds and maybe bookbinding 👍🏼 great stuff dude

Very cool shop project. Great job and great tips for when I need to build one. See you in a few days. Bring you Poncho.

Nice project!!!

Awesome video Doug. It was -23 here this week. Stay warm my friend😉

Man I'm lucky (am I really though?) that I work at Harbor Freight! At $25 (with my discount) for a 12 ton bottle jack and MAYBE $50 in steel I'm about to build a better shop press than the ones HF sells for a third of the price. No more janky bending with my hand seamer! I also used one of Harbor Freight's ventilator fans to build the fume extraction system shown in another video. Thanks again for the how-to's!!!

Doug , Great Video as ALWAYS. It's 26 ° here , we are having a Heat Wave , Compared to the Last Couple of days!!! I would LOVE to have a 50° Day 🤣🤣👍

Once again Doug you have just made me shake my head and have a smile on my face. To take scrap and make something you will need and use is just brilliant. Great work Doug. And congrats on the high number of subscribers you are getting. Keep it up.

Super duper cool Doug... Love the stop block idea!!

Great job! Thank you for sharing.

That's a great job with awesome step by step tips for anyone to build one. Yesterday it was -3 here so we're glad you survived your 50 degrees.😁

Thanks Doug _ great job. You’ve given me some wonderful ideas to build me press brake as well and keep it simple !

Thanks for the video Doug. Nice job on the press.

Great video, I love how you point out how you change/ modify it as you go

Hello from Yuma Very well explained video Thanks and keep the videos coming

Quick and easy, gets it done. Nice

Excellent addition to the shop!!! Nice job, and your editing skills perfect!!!

I wish I made my edge removable like this so I can redress it after I mess up the edge bending round bar. This is another cool project

I like the build man, the little details add up to a well thought out and highly functional machine.

I need to make one! Thanks for sharing!!

Nice job Doug!! I have been wanting to do something like that for awhile now.

Great looking brake Doug! and good ideas for not loosing any parts (inc the yellow paint) 👍 👍

Hey Doug! Really enjoyed the video. I’m sure you have many savvy followers on here but I figured I’d throw a tip in if you haven’t already been told. I work as a foreman for a structural steel company out of MA. I usually do all of the press brake work, we have a 1940’s - 1950’s era 10’ 200 ton Cleveland brake that’s capable of bending up to 10’ of 1/4” and 5’ of 1/2” if you really give it the business. Anyways, I saw your issue with the back gauge as you were saying for smaller bends you wouldn’t be able to use it because it wouldn’t get close enough. We don’t have a back gauge in ours so we made two little shelves that we can stretch a piece of angle iron across on. If we’re doing small bend (for example a 3/4” outside bend on a piece of 1/8”. Standard practice being that your bottom die is 8x the width of your material thickness so a 1” die / 1/2” from bend line to edge of the landing leaving 1/8” of overhang with respect to material thickness) we will often times throw a little 2” or so piece of material onto our shelves so it can extend on to the top of the back landing of the die. Since you have that little piece of angle as your stop, it may be worthwhile to add in one or two more of those back gauges, bend a 2”x4” piece of angle out of 20 gage and clamp it to the back gage so you can extend beyond the back face of the channel. Just make sure the leg that’s being used as a stop is consistent throughout. If you have a 1/16” variance from end to end it’s going to show in the work piece. Also if you have 3 stops you can expand into working with cuts that are cupped or have a crown (it’s more common than you’d think on thinner pieces of material, 16 gage and under). Sorry for rambling and making a mountain out of a mole hill! Cool build and if you’d like some more little tips, or you’d like me to draw out what I’m talking about for you, feel free to let me know. Hope you’re well, stay safe and keep at it!

Nice build. I want to build something just like this for pressing bearings and stuff. Thanks man.

You remind of Donal Logue who plays bullock in gotham... plus nice work in the shop🖒

Niiiiiiice 👍👍👍👍

Great build! I need to make something like this so i can bend some 5/16" brass rod for some of my projects👌🏻

Pretty neat, it's interesting what you can do with bottle jacks. If I need one, I could buy it at one of our TSC Stores/Peavey Marts in Canada. They have a shelf full of bottle jacks.

it was cool how you had things cut to size then hand assembled the parts the Insert idea for 45's is great may I suggest you radius your 90* cut corners for a nicer look Great Build - thumbs up / subbed 'gonna see what else you've made

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Very well done and explained ...can u let us know the link to that cool digital protractor

FYI, last night here, -12. 50 degree, hahahahahahaa. I feel your pain.

Thanks for the video! This will be my next project. How did you get the knife edge on the blade?

Sir, good evening. Can i ask question. May i know what type of tention spring did you used n where to buy?

Hey Doug, like the build, doesn't the ram typically taper to a blunt edge for a brake? I guess it works anyway. It's cold like that here in Florida as well. 🥶

Gold coin die press working ???

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Great video. I will be building one of these. IG MF REFAB