Recent content by FullCircleSteel

I genuinely appreciate all the input and advice. Have a good one guys.

zmax: Thanks for the feedback. I actually want to use the hoods for artistic purposes. I'm making tables and desks and utilizing the natural weather and rusting patterns to make artistic tables. MP&C: Yeah, I should have provided more information to let you and others know I was making multiple...

Sure I can show some pictures. I appreciate the feedback from those that gave and ask you guys that thought I was being rude to re-read what I typed. I wasn't being rude at all. I just asked if the person hadn't worked with older hoods, because the ones I am working with are quite old, and I...

To reply to the first person: The center has never buckled in the past with C clamps. I haven't used a box and pan brake before. I would think that a bar would lower and clamp the piece to the work surface prior to the bend. Wouldn't this address buckling by pressing down to reduce the center...

So I have 16 gauge sheet metal from the hood of a car that needs to be bent. I have cut the sheet metal off the frame of the hood and need to make a 90 degree bend across the front. It's less than four feet long, so you would think that a four foot 16 gauge box and pan brake would do the trick...