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Tool My new pan and box brake
- Thread starter David
- Start date
Tool
So more like a $250 break then?
@YYCHM
This is my comparison. Same machine.
www.kmstools.com
This is my comparison. Same machine.
Magnum 24" Box/Pan Metal Brake
20ga capacity in mild steel1", 2", 3", 8", and 10" segment fingers
All in yes
$500 + tax is $565 so less than half feels good.
Thanks mate, I have to be totally honest... I bought it to make the parts to put the DRO on my Southbend.
But I have wanted one for ages.... right off the bat I need to make a drawer for my welding cart.
Good score!
I use mine quite often, just yesterday made up a small aluminum box for one of my electronics projects.
Suggestions:
Make a couple of drift pins that fit the holes in the cams that adjust the finger spacing. Makes it much easier to operate.
Replace the chinesium cap screws that hold the fingers in place. Gets some nice Grade 5 socket cap screws. The chinesium ones will strip the first time you try to bend anything stronger than cardboard.
I use mine quite often, just yesterday made up a small aluminum box for one of my electronics projects.
Suggestions:
Make a couple of drift pins that fit the holes in the cams that adjust the finger spacing. Makes it much easier to operate.
Replace the chinesium cap screws that hold the fingers in place. Gets some nice Grade 5 socket cap screws. The chinesium ones will strip the first time you try to bend anything stronger than cardboard.
Thanks! I'm going to go through it and clean it up. I will replace the cap screws as your experience definitely parallels mine!
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
Awesome. Sounds like a great community you guys have out west. Reminds me of my bike racing days where you could get anything shipped around the province for nothing or next to nothing as there was always somebody going somewhere, and willing to lend a hand to get a part, or a bike a bit further down the road.
Nice. Great Score.
I have the 3:1 sheet metal machine. There are times where I'd much rather have the pan and box brake. To be truthful though, I find I nowadays 3D print boxes rather than fab them from sheet metal. Just lazy I guess.
Thanks @jcdammeyer and @SomeGuy, I hope to pull all the fingers off this weekend and get the thing cleaned up. I did a little test bend on some brass stock, maybe 1/8" thick by 1" wide and it had no problem. Ironically, the feet that would be used to bolt the machine down are bent 