Making a Radius Bending Fixture for Sheetmetal 

THIS. This is what I needed to enter metal working. Simple, affordable, and adaptable. Up until this moment I've been limited in my projects to flat, square metal sheets. To my great frustration, sometimes you just need curves. And here it is. Thank you so much.

This is the kind of diy i love. So simple, so cheap and such a good end result! Thank you for the video!!

Thanks Ron, you always take a simple approach toward difficult problems - I have struggled with radius bends for years

As always I learn something new every time i watch a covell video. You sir are a true metal craftsman. Thank you for your knowledge.

Thanks for sharing Ron, fantastic idea! Such a simple design, yet so versatile, hence why you're the best!

Excellent and simple. Very Ron Covell. You've had this bending fixture in your shop forever; longer than I've known you. I've done a lot of bending with just the tubing fixture clamped to the table for tanks and motorcycle tank tunnels, etc but always fudged it a bit. I think I need one of these! I think the radius edge tanks is the neatest thing I picked up from watching you (and Steve Davis). Keep digging in your tool box for these gems, please!

This is amazing. I have watched quite a few of your videos. This one is so simple and yet so effective! Thank you so much for sharing your wealth of knowledge in metal shaping so freely!

You always make metal forming look easy. Nice as usual Ron.

You are the best in the business Ron, have been following your work for years.

Ron that's that cleanest table-top break design i've ever seen, great video keep up the hard work!!

Thank you so much, Mr. Covell. Excellent work. Thank you for making & posting this video. God Bless you.

I’m a old tony watcher and now I’m a Ron Corell. Love your videos!

Cool. Thank you for showing a non tooled shop version. I've been watch Trev's Blog for a while. He hooked up to yours. I've very excited on trying the things I see on his and your channel's. My Jeep Wrangler can use some TLC. It has been a life long chase if you will to build stuff for cars/trucks. Now I feel it's time to get my hands dirty!

Excellent Ron, Thankyou! Simple and easy to build. You just gave me an idea for a brake that's similar but the axles of the bending leaf are on the centre line of the round tube and adjustable for use with interchangeable tubes for different radiuses, more complex than yours, but one could do a 180 deg. radius in one bend if needed. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us 👍

The first time I used this method was to make a cowl for a steam traction engine at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney in 1988. I had your books and was learning metal forming when the issue of the cowl came up. I was just a lab tech but I piped up that I did a bit of metal forming in my spare time and was awarded the task. It came out well and I got promoted to workshop duties as well as lab duties. Thanks Ron

Excellent Video Ron. Short, concise, and very informative. Thank you.

Great video Ron, really beautifully explained and demonstrated.

I love quick and dirty solutions that get the job done without costing an arm and a leg. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing. Always nice seeing what can be done with simple tools and a little bit of clever 😁

I love the looks gotten mid project when the customer/friend looks at how scabby or ugly looking something is as I'm making it, but it turns into a smile as they start to see where it's going and understand why I did some of the things I did early on with some bends etc. Good info as always Ron.

A very clever artisan using simple tools; thank you Ron

Thank you for putting the background music in the background Ron

Thanks Ron for that info,it is worth money just learning what you showed .That's one reason why I subscribed.

Solid gold, friend. I need this for a project. Will make tomorrow. Thank you.

Dear Ron, thanks for the simple but effective solution for achieving rounded bends. Great idea...

Just BEAUTIFUL! Very simple... and works nicely 👍👍👍

Simple, and perfectly effective! Thanks for sharing Ron!!

Thanks for the great video. You are a knowledgeable, yet humble man.

My son just sent one of your videos to me, I'm now going through them one by one! I've been a fabricator for nearly fifty years and am learning something from every vid. Thank you!

The simplicity of your approach is brilliant new sub.

Very nicely done. Just a bit of metal and some welding with my everlast welder. I love these kinds of projects.

Now THAT is slick! Thanks for sharing what the big brain puts out.

Great setup Ron. I've got a similar (albeit more complicated) design that I've never gotten around to finishing building. Inspiring me to finish it up. 👍

Thank you for sharing this will work perfectly for my transmission pan build

It's great to see the simple things working that perfect. Now I have to cut and weld a little bit. 😁 Thanks a lot Ron, see you at SEMA!

Sensacional , já fiz muito dessa técnica por aqui 👍

Fantastic, for my little lab is perfect. Thanks for suggestion Ron

Excellent idea, and gives me a brilliant idea for a new tool I wanted to build. Thanks Ron, hope you are keeping well in these weird old times....Rob from England (Fh Ellis courses)

Brilliant!! Thanks for that. In the future I'm going to make some repair panels for some rusty rockers. This should work great!

Exelente Maestro!!!! Saludos desde Cordoba Argentina.

I LOVED this video and your creations! Thank you for sharing! I only just found your channel. Will be watching more of your work.

Thanks Ron. Ingenius method and well explained.

Excellent content- as usual !! Thanks, Ron.

Amazing, I watched a metal Craftsman in a third world country and he was using similar bending method. Wonder how many of these old tricks are lost. Good job and thank you.

Thanks Ron - another project on my list

Awesome video thanks from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

About as simple as it gets! Thanks Ron!

Very nice Ron, I've learned so much from your videos.

Excellent video! I usually shy away from thin metal working lack of of sheetmetal tools, especially the bending. Now I won't! I wish I'd seen this vid when it came out. I just subscribed a few days ago! With the snip tutorials and this diy build, I'm off and running! I have a bunch of back tracking to do on your videos. Thank you so much for passing on these methods and your experience. I will be back tracking on a bunch of projects that I passed over as too tedious. Maybe I can salvage some of the materials from failed attempts! Big thumbs up and thanks!

Wow so simple Ron your the man your worth your weight in gold keep it up 👌

Many Thanks. It is EXACTLY what I meed to make fuel tanks..Will make these devices and attach to my workbench!

Awesome tip and something I was looking for. Cheers brother

Great idea, will have to make one for my workshop. Thanks

This video is gonna save me a lot of money! Don't need to build a "slip roller" now. Thank You!

Excellent idea Ron, thanks for sharing.

Awesome and simple, thanks for sharing

Very nice! Old school fabrication methods joined with modern tech (e.g., mig). Excellent! Sub.

Thanks for posting that video!

I try To make my armor plated on my jeep thanks for this tips 🤙

I really look forward to your videos! The next time i'm at the metal supply i'm going to buy a nice heavy piece of angle iron so i can build one of these!

Thanks, very useful, all the best ideas are the simple ones!!

Simple, but very effective Nicely done 👍

I AM SO MAKING ONE OF THESE TODAY omg i'm inspired

I hope so. Have to look at the new floor braces and match the bend to a pipe and It's off to the races. Can't wait. Just have to make the brake long enough for a inner rocker which is about 6ft.

Hey, I am still here, You are the Best Ron, Hope you are staying safe !

GREAT IDEAS!!! THANKS, RON!!!

I love its simplicity, everyone can do this.

That was brilliant!!!

first vid-genius-subscribed-thanks for uploading

That is slick! I love it.. Simple and cheap☺👍

Very clever. Simple & effective. 👍👍

Thanks for sharing! Just discovered the channel and subbed👍

Great tips. I love it! Thank you

Good idea Thank you for this videos Ron

Awesome video - thanks for posting! :D

Nice idea ron I need this thank you!

This is great info 👍 for projects for people who do it there self's

Thank you, you have given me an idea for my one-off. I need to make a 11cm tube for a chimney flue, so I will try with just a steel tube screwed to the bench. Later I will need to make a 2m J section guttering for the rear window of our camping-car, again I hope to bend it round a steel tube like you.

Thank you Ron...very helpful

Great vid Ron !! Thanks

Great Idea! Will use in my projects!! Thanks!!

Hi Ron.....I saw your story on Trev's chanel. I'm a new subscriber and look forward to seeing your work. Be safe and have a happy day!

Great and very informative.

Wow what a nice material

That's very cool I love them.

Nice work.. thx for sharing

I will be making this ! Thank you 👍👍👍👍

Thank you for this tip. Its is great!

Great video Ron! How was going to add some homemade radius dies to my leaf brake, but you made a great point, and showing its limitations because of its size, and I'll be making one like yours. Good to see you making some videos, hope all is well.

what a craftsman superb

Excellent spectacular. Saludos desde Buenos Aires Argentina 👋😎

Just found your channel and Subscribed. Very nice work

Great ideas! Subbed and faved! Cheers Ron!

Good stuff, Ron....I like it!

I am helping my Brother do body work fabrications on his 1919 Plymouth Coupe he just bought and as you know everything is Round...We are using 16 Gauged sheet metal. We did a couple 42" bends but we had to heat it to bend by hand on a home made steel frame we threw together with a round bar welding on it to give the shape. Now after seeing your video I jumped up and grabbed one of rear end of non running 8N ford tractor. The 8N does not need a motor to lift the lift arms. To test a 8N without starting it take the PTO handle is be sure it OUT OF GEAR turning the PTO OFF. Now move the hydraulic lift lever to the fully up position and then turn the PTO as fast as you can COUNTER CLOCKWISE, If the hydraulics is good it should start lifting the lift arms almost instantly. A running 8N can lift 900 LBS at full speed. But I'm guessing it can lift 300-400 at idle. I'll be cranking the PTO with a Hand Crank so who knows. Might work? Already mounted my already made super heavy gauge 8 foot long and 4 foot wide table to the rear of the tractor just over the lift arms. Can't wait to get it finished tomorrow.to try it out...In my mind I trying to calculate how much pressure is needed to bend 16 gauge say 4 foot long without heating it? With heating it I know it takes only two to three hundred ILS.

Awesome video thanks for sharing.

you make it look so easy

Great idea with the square stock tacked that way.

Up next, Ron makes a complete roadster body using a bucket and a spring. 💪

Nice job thanks for sharing