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Re: Sheet Metal Manual Brake Press

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Originally Posted by David Guzman View Post
But, even the heavy duty one can only do up to 50 thousands. Unless I am not looking at the specs correctly.
Both the 'heavy duty' and 'standard' brakes you link to have a capacity of 16 ga (0.060) mild steel (at 48" wide!), which means you can force the machine to go a little thicker. 0.090 aluminum should be OK, also at 48" wide. There are ways to bend even thicker stuff, like drilling an 1/8" relief hole every inch or so along the bend line, the effort reduction is significant.

Their bigger machine, which can do 12 ga (0.105) steel at 96" length is, unfortunately, almost $7k. This will happily bend 1/8" aluminum 8' long...

My very best advice is to call Baileigh and have a conversation with them.
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Call 920-684-4990 and talk to a Baileigh Industrial representative for more information.
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