hey everybody matt from eastwood we're here in eastwood garage doing another live tech session uh today's tuesday and we're gonna bend some metal today so if you guys haven't watched one of these before we try and make it pretty pretty interactive so you can log on to facebook you can log on to youtube you can join the chat if you don't have either of those you can also log right on the eastwood.com and we have a live feed is there there as well that you can watch and see all the products we have for sale we got scott as usual he's back today how you guys doing so if you have any questions make sure you post them up on youtube or on facebook i'll do my best to get them answered or i can also shoot them over matt so let's see the metal bender in action cool thank you scott so today um we're going to show you we talked about a little bit yesterday but if you guys want to bend some metal and you don't want to use an oxy acetylene torch or maybe you want something that's a little a little bit easier to control we have the eastwood four inch metal bender here that basically has 250 tons of force that you can bend metal with with this tool it's pretty easy to use i already have one piece set up here that i'm going to bend for you so this is 3 16 steel that's pretty easy to bend with this there's a little stop here on the end that you can use as a little wingnut underneath so what you can do is you can measure your stop so if you're trying to do bends that are the same distance each time you can use that stop there's a little scale right here on the top you can use and you can look at the back of the line see where it's at when it's touching but not bending then you can actually start bending so to use this tool it's pretty simple i have the i have the handle screwed in here what we can do i'll move some of my sample pieces here and you'll see how quick and easy we can move this 3 16 plate here joe will get in there but if you want to get the long section there let's start bending so as i bend this you can see pretty quickly it's making that bend so on eighth inch and under now this is three sixteenths but anything that's eighth inch or under you can actually bend over 90 degrees on this so we can let it away so we can go 125 degrees if we're doing something that's eighth inch or under uh pretty easily with this so anything that's uh that's thicker on this like this will bend up the 3 8 thick metal you can you can go to 90 degrees with it and the the height of the piece will actually go down so 3 16 we can go all the way to 4 inches wide that'll fill up this whole area here and you can see as i'm bending it after after you get over center it actually gets a little easier to bend now you see there's a little bit of spring back there uh maybe i'll let me go back and see if joe can get a shot of it so i'm bending i'll bend it a little bit more okay so i'm happy with that as i let off watch the ends they're actually going to move a little bit and spring back some so what you need to do is before you let off the pressure you want to look at your gauge here and see where you're at exactly so that way you can actually see so you can see on here you're going to look on this back edge right there right in there and just note to yourself where that's at so from where we started to where we ended you just want to note those numbers and then you can go and recreate that bend if you're doing multiple bends that are the same to take this piece out pretty simple we just run the handle back out like so and we can push that forward has like a quick release lever here so if you can't get your piece out what you can do is you can uh make sure this is all the way forward here and slide this up like that it has little slots on the both the top and the bottom so with all the force that it takes to tighten it sometimes you got to give it a little tap with the heel of your hand but let me i'll turn this sideways here nice really nice bend nice curve in here it's not notchy if you're trying to bend this in a vise or something like that you might get a hard edge there but because this piece has a little bit of a rounded edge on it gives you a nice bend in there which is going to look factory if you're building something it's going to look more like a stamped piece uh rather than something that you hammered and beat into position so if we want to create another bend um say on the other end to go the other way we can just slide this guy right in here like this slide it back down like so and this one i'm not trying to recreate the same bend here let me just make sure it's in the slot there like so now another thing you can do another tip is to make sure that you're getting a nice even bend is you can put a little bubble level right here or an angle finder to make sure that you got your piece dead straight so that when you bend it you're not getting a bend that's that's actually kind of going downhill so you can actually do that if you're trying to bend something that's you know you want it to be all nice and even so again got it in there put another bend like so and pretty quickly make brackets so you can see you can make brackets you know for seat brackets you know tabs or brackets for holding gas tanks or anything else on the vehicle you can bend them pretty quickly and easily with this tool any questions scott as i'm taking this out of here sure one of those i got right now is is this tool only for flat stock or can you bend more than that uh good question so you can bend more than just flat stock and basically anything that'll fit in there um the the max ra the max radius or thickness you're going to do is 3 8. so if you try to bend a piece of bar stock that's that's thicker than that like round bar stock you're going to have trouble but it can fit in there and it can bend those you just have to play with it a little bit to see how it works now if you're doing different types of material like a high carbon steel or if you're doing i'm going to pull this over here so if you're doing like an aluminum that's a little softer so you may actually be able to go thicker than what the the tool is rated to but if you're doing stainless or something like that you may have a little bit more trouble doing something that's thicker and the rating of the tool may go down now the tool does have right here there's a shear pin in it flip this back here there's actually a shear pin in here which is is good it's for if you're not familiar a sheer pin is made to break what happens is instead of the tool getting a lot of force underneath um in it and something breaking and kind of exploding in your face the shear pin will basically just break it'll let the tension off safely if you exceed the capabilities of the tool instead of actually breaking the tool so the shear pin you can just replace it with another shear pin or a grade five bolt something that's a little softer so that it will just break so if that happens that's not that the tool is having an issue that's just that you've reached you've tried bending something that's over the capability of the tool so we had a little piece here that the guys made and we're shooting another video here that's great to show you can make a little box section like this so by using that backstop that i showed you you can measure and get all your bends to make a box like that which is neat you know and you can make it in whatever shape you want but you can make something that's actually shaped meets in the end there and you can weld it together to to meet your needs now this is a piece of quarter inch here this is thicker oh there you go so the quarter inch obviously has to be a little more narrow just due to the thickness of it but you can do 90 degree bends again the thing i really like is look how nice and smooth that bend is right there turn it like that so it's not notched it's not a flat spot in the center from you heating and beating it with the hammer over a vise or over an anvil something like that where you flattened it out gives it a nice roll so it's a nice professional look when you're making something uh which is pretty cool in mind it's actually a good thing to point out because we just got asked you know we'll leave any mark when you when you use this tool so that's good to show i was just going to ask you you kind of answer it ahead of time but you know just to reiterate you know how nice of a market it doesn't leave a mark how nice it leaves that nice smooth surface yeah so it'll have you might have a tiny little mark on the inside here that's just from where the tool contacted that i mean a da sander could take out but otherwise there's no real marring you know again if you're using a torch or something like that where you're hammering on you're going to get flat spots inconsistencies in the metal which is going to be hard to sand out so again here's another piece that we did a little thinner stuff but you can make nice bends like that with the tool with no problem at all so that is all i got for the tools we got any other any other questions today it's pretty pretty simple but real handy tool yep i mean the only thing i could think to point out would just be to make sure with this tool you're only using solid stock nothing hollow because otherwise you're just going to crush it flat but anything solid you know you can make those those nice bends and since we're pretty much finished up also want to make sure everybody knows tomorrow if you guys tuned in last week when you saw matt making this fender he is going to be finishing so here's one he made last week this was the example so he will be working on this and showing you how to get it over here so make sure you tune in tomorrow at 3 o'clock so you can watch matt that should be a fun one to to finish that up we're going to be making a lot of noise i'm going to fire up the planishing hammer and we're going to smooth that thing out real quickly with the planishing hammer and to show you guys why you need one of those tools so again if you guys are unfamiliar with this and you happen to miss this this will be recorded on uh on our youtube channel you can catch that for the metal bender you can also go to eastwood.com or click the link in the comments or in the video and you can check out more about this product and also watch another video on it as well so that's all i got guys i appreciate you tuning in as always if you have any ideas for future uh live broadcasts that you'd like to see whether it's a particular product or it's a type of video let us know and we'll do our best to do them so i'll catch you guys tomorrow three we're gonna make some noise tomorrow thanks guys see ya you