I am thinking about doing a significant upgrade on my sheet metal brake and have become very intertested in the Magnabend. Its a little spendy, but seems to have a LOT more versitility than a conventional box brake. Anybody use one of these?


It looks like it does all the typical stuff, plus deep boxes and comples shapes like these:





More info on it here:

http://www.magnabend.com/


Modified by Top Ramen at 10:35 PM 5/28/2007

 

Their website dont show the price! how much are they ?

seem's like a goog brake, N-e-way, for the application I'm doing with it, it should be fine enough for me, Really interesting.

I never used one, but I suscribe to this tread, I want to know if they worth the penny...

Jp

 

Yeah, that's a pretty sweet piece right there...how much is "spendy"?

 

how thick of stuff can it bend?

 

It looks like the come in lengths from 2' to 10'. Says they bend 16g full width, although the 10' will only bend 18g the full width. Eastwood has the 4 foot model for $3K. Again, spendy but probably versitile enough to be worth it.

A couple of the guys on the MetalMeet forums had good things to say about it. Radiused bends are a snap, it does stiffening channels well and it will do boxes to any depth. I think I am going to start keeping an eye out for a used one.

Again, site url is http://www.magnabend.com