DIY armature bending machine

Hello everyone, gentlemen, homemade products. Here I dug in the open spaces of the bourgeois another homemade product, a machine for bending fittings, made exclusively of ferrous metal. There are a lot of options for such machines, and if the topic hits you, I will collect other manufacturing methods and publish here in the general collection.

This is what the machine itself looks like.

In a homemade product, you can clearly trace the bourgeois manner, since they are very fond of complicating the simplest things. Well, now let's get down to analyzing the manufacturing process.

A large bolt with a nut is taken as a basis, I will not say the exact size, but it doesn't matter. I have met a lot of such bolts on ferrous metal, and they were much larger than this one. So if you decide to make one, then there will definitely be no problems with the bolt.

The master immediately cuts off the head of the bolt, only further in the design it is not clear what the head was in his way.

Now the bolt has turned into a hairpin and a cut is made on it, the width of the cut is about 10 mm, for the same size of the reinforcement.

First of all, the master drills a through hole of 10 mm, after which he works with a grinder.

A thick steel sheet is used as the bed, in which 4 holes are drilled in order to screw the bed to the workbench.

We weld our hairpin to the bed exactly in the center. You need to cook thoroughly, since it will be the main load on it. That's why it was necessary to cut off the hat, I did not understand))

Next, the master makes a handle for the machine. A piece of metal strip with a thickness of at least 4 mm is used. A nut must be welded to the strip. In the photo, the author tries on a nut and marks its outlines of three faces on the strip.

Cut out a place for the nut, as shown in the photo. Perfect accuracy is not needed here. Next, we cut off this piece of the strip along the yellow line, here about 10-12 centimeters.

Next, we make a hole in the center, insert a bolt 10 into it and cut off the corners from the opposite side of the nut installation site (as shown in the photo).

I don’t even know what to call this contraption, which eventually turned out, but we weld it to the nut exactly as in the photo.

Then, on the reverse side, the master welds a square rod, which acts as the main handle. We clean the whole thing with a metal brush, then with a grinding wheel, then polish to a shine of cat eggs))) Just kidding, of course.

This is how the whole structure looks in disassembled form. It shines, it hurts your eyes, well, Americans love this))

Let's start assembling. We put 3 bearings on the bolt, insert it into the drilled hole, then the washer and fix it with a nut. We do it as in the photo.

We screw the nut onto the stud and the machine for bending fittings is ready. The principle of operation is clear.

Conclusion. In general, the design is excellent, but the functionality is limited. In this case, the size of the nut does not allow using a rod thicker than 10 mm. Although, for welders and for the manufacture of foundation reinforcement, this will be enough. The machine is mobile, collapsible, but the manufacturing process can be greatly simplified.

Well, now, as usual, I'm waiting for your comments on this thing. How useful is it and is it worth it to waste your hands with this homemade product.

On this, if you please take a bow. I wish Peace and Good to all guests and subscribers!! Do not forget to squeeze the likes)))

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