Bending Die
Sub-series from the Ball Joint Mod broken out into its own thing.
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Yea!! I finish the dies and they work!! .....sort of. They work awesome on a blank, but not if they're pre-cut. It all seemed kind of obvious after the fact. I may try one more thing that was suggested and see if it works.
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More reworking of the female half of the die. I added rollers to keep from scarring the metal and during the process, realized that the original hole wasn't wide enough. I get the holes drilled in this vid, but the next vid finishes off the series.
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I figured out how to finish the corners of the die with the mill so that I didn't have to hand file them. The die kinda worked. Scarred the metal pretty badly. In a later vid, I realized that the width of the hole must be too narrow. I love making tools.......didn't say I was any good at it!! :)
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This vid is mostly about machining the female half of the die set.
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This is still part of the ball joint mod, but since it's specifically about the bending die, I figured I'd title it differently.
I was looking to build a die set that would allow me to bend the sway bar mount in one operation. Overall, it didn't work out as well as I had hoped, but I learned a few things about machining and bending metal along the way :) |