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Well I just got my new bender tool from "Eastwood" and it works great !
I thought I would share what I did today with it.
I'm in the process of getting my truck ready for my great expedition and I needed to remount my "Hi-Lift" jack. The old brackets where rusting, so I thought "why not make them out of Stainless Steel" . Well bending stainless steel, even 1/8" is a real pain ! So I took the brackets I cut out to several machine shops around here, and all wanted nothing to do with bending it. That just left me with using my vise and a large hammer. I don't like the look of brackets made that way. They usually come out looking like crap.
So I found this new metal bender from "Eastwood" that can bend up to 3/8" steel 4" wide. I bought it and it works great. Here's a link to the tool. https://www.eastwood.com/4-inch-metal-bender.html
Here's some pictures of the brackets I made today.
![007.jpg 007.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/520/520814-e77d02c8d613683435c197d57cb8dcfc.jpg)
![012.jpg 012.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/520/520815-ae7275dcff8fcee28f638304ea79c808.jpg)
![013.jpg 013.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/520/520816-9de84c3bf3a621d656b10215945159ed.jpg)
![006.jpg 006.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/520/520817-ffd56db5c5bc90e24c4cbe83f65d2da0.jpg)
![014.jpg 014.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/520/520818-4000df1c7abf249310ae56bf98880562.jpg)
![015.jpg 015.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/520/520819-99411ae9de79637d0a40a456897f751b.jpg)
Since I'm always making little brackets and such for my deuce, this unit will be invaluable to me.
I thought I would share what I did today with it.
I'm in the process of getting my truck ready for my great expedition and I needed to remount my "Hi-Lift" jack. The old brackets where rusting, so I thought "why not make them out of Stainless Steel" . Well bending stainless steel, even 1/8" is a real pain ! So I took the brackets I cut out to several machine shops around here, and all wanted nothing to do with bending it. That just left me with using my vise and a large hammer. I don't like the look of brackets made that way. They usually come out looking like crap.
So I found this new metal bender from "Eastwood" that can bend up to 3/8" steel 4" wide. I bought it and it works great. Here's a link to the tool. https://www.eastwood.com/4-inch-metal-bender.html
Here's some pictures of the brackets I made today.
![007.jpg 007.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/520/520814-e77d02c8d613683435c197d57cb8dcfc.jpg)
![012.jpg 012.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/520/520815-ae7275dcff8fcee28f638304ea79c808.jpg)
![013.jpg 013.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/520/520816-9de84c3bf3a621d656b10215945159ed.jpg)
![006.jpg 006.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/520/520817-ffd56db5c5bc90e24c4cbe83f65d2da0.jpg)
![014.jpg 014.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/520/520818-4000df1c7abf249310ae56bf98880562.jpg)
![015.jpg 015.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/520/520819-99411ae9de79637d0a40a456897f751b.jpg)
Since I'm always making little brackets and such for my deuce, this unit will be invaluable to me.
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