homemade press brake

[David the welder]

This is my latest homemade brake press. It's not completely finished yet, but the mechanics are done.

 

[Iron-Iceberg]

Wow that's really cool. I like the design.

 

[texasranger]

Impressive looking, medieval. I'm scratching my head how the linkage works though. Was the curved part at the top right a later addition? I'm guessing you started with the cylinder between the levers/cams?

 

[David the welder]

This is being built entirely out of scrap steel laying around my shop. I started by taking an inventory of what i had to wwork with. I knew that the heavy beam would be used for the leverage arms and that the 3/8" plates would be used for the sides of the body. Then with the basic concept in mind, I started building. The curved arm at the top was because of what I had to work with, and seemed like it would be strong. Visually I think it looks awesome, as well as proving to be quite strong, so I'll carry that theme to other places that need reinforcement. I don't have enough large sheets of plate to laminate sections to be really thick in areas, so I have to be creative with grids as reinforcements.

 

[Firestorm]

wow, that is a awesome. Great machine and nice shop!

 

[David the welder]

Thanks! My mission over the last couple of years has been focused on building all of my equipment mysel, all out of scrap laying around the shop. In some of my other posts on GJ you can see some of my other homemade stuff. I built a smaller press brake last year that I shared to the forum.

 

[b-dog]

Super cool! I like the links and round/artsy support!

 

[bullnerd]

Very cool!

You are talented for sure!

Video would be sweet if you can.

 

[David the welder]

Can I post video here?

 

[bullnerd]

Can I post video here?

Hold on, let me ask.....Yup!

 

[Richard Cranium]

Video approved, go for it.

 

[David the welder]

Hopefully this works

 

[PugetDude]

Hopefully this works

Hope is not a course of action.
Try again.

We're waiting.....

 

[bullnerd]

"Hope is not a course of action"

Oh man, my dad used to say that to me when I was younger, haven't heard it in a while!

 

[4 FN 27]

Nice work. Can't wait to see the final product.

 

[f150skidoo]

Very cool and great work.

 

[David the welder]

I can't a video to uupload, but I do have a video on my Facebook page for anyone interested in seeing it work. If you go to my Columbus Mobile-Welding Facebook page, then go to my profile "David Stewart", you'll be able to the brake plus tons of other cool projects. I always come to GJ first to highlight bigger projects, but my FB page has a lot of cool homemade stuff I've done.