finger brake plans
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d-m
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Hi all
Ill try to make a long story short. My oldest son (16) was born with Downs Syndrome his high school has many ways of generating money for school activity's. One of them is a green house were they grow a wide verity of plants and sell them in the spring. A new hire in the special ed program is also a sheet metal fabricator he has plans to have the kids make some sheet metal planters and some stands. If some one has plans for a light weight brake I would appreciate it sorry about the first post still have some work to do to this computer.
Dave
Ill try to make a long story short. My oldest son (16) was born with Downs Syndrome his high school has many ways of generating money for school activity's. One of them is a green house were they grow a wide verity of plants and sell them in the spring. A new hire in the special ed program is also a sheet metal fabricator he has plans to have the kids make some sheet metal planters and some stands. If some one has plans for a light weight brake I would appreciate it sorry about the first post still have some work to do to this computer.
Dave
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Glad to hear it. ;D
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I made that brake and modified the design so it was easier to adjust for different thicknesses of sheet metal.
It was a little trickier to build then I thought and I ended up custom fitting a lot of stuff, filing it to fit just right.
I attached a render of the thing, can't send any pictures. It is oiled, wrapped up in clingfilm, together with the rest of the workshop. We are off to Cyprus in a couple of weeks.
It works, but as I said, a bit fiddly to get to work.
Forgot to mention, I have some detailed drawings in metric if you want.
Lykle
It was a little trickier to build then I thought and I ended up custom fitting a lot of stuff, filing it to fit just right.
I attached a render of the thing, can't send any pictures. It is oiled, wrapped up in clingfilm, together with the rest of the workshop. We are off to Cyprus in a couple of weeks.
It works, but as I said, a bit fiddly to get to work.
Forgot to mention, I have some detailed drawings in metric if you want.
Lykle
I came across this offering but may be a bit too ambitious.......
http://www.woodworkforums.com/f65/making-pan-brake-folder-fingers-home-45792/index2.html
Another folder here
http://homemetalshopclub.org/projects/project.html
at the bottom of the page..JRW Sheet Metal Brake
http://www.woodworkforums.com/f65/making-pan-brake-folder-fingers-home-45792/index2.html
Another folder here
http://homemetalshopclub.org/projects/project.html
at the bottom of the page..JRW Sheet Metal Brake
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Hi
I wanted to thank every one who pointed me to some finger brake plans. My friend Jeff and I looked at every one with care and then some we found. We took the ideals and gathered material from are bins. I will have a post in work in progress with some pic of the soon to be complete finger brake.
Dave
I wanted to thank every one who pointed me to some finger brake plans. My friend Jeff and I looked at every one with care and then some we found. We took the ideals and gathered material from are bins. I will have a post in work in progress with some pic of the soon to be complete finger brake.
Dave
