That looks hefty. I see there are 2 different styles of fingers. Mine are made of 16mm plate and are quite long. Your type are short and fat! I assume those fingers are heavier duty but more limited in what you can bend? Anyone know the different capabilities of the 2 different types?
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Blimey someone clearly doesn’t skip leg day!
I think the truefold capacity is 1.5mm, the one I have is rated at 2.5mm, I would say there's over a ton weight in the one I have
Mine is also stupidly heavy but the fingers aren't as beefy. Mine is rated at 1.5mm over 2m. I bent 3mm aluminium using @sako243 trufold and it was effortless although it was only about 340mm wide.
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I have had a fair bit of success with a flypress on longer bends by incrementally moving the bend along ~500mm at a time.
The advantage of a box pan folder is (at the consumer level!) for smaller boxes where you can set the exact width of the fingers to the length of the sides of the box. Typically with a sheet bender, there is no room to allow a second 90º bend either end of the top die. A box pan folder lets a pre formed edge go outside the edge of the "finger" so that you can complete all 4 sides.
4mm aluminium is an issue because it will need a huge amount of power so the fingers will need to be very strong (as will you!). For a decent length, those fingers are £££...
Flypress, cheap as chips albeit with some restriction for length but is by default, able to operate like a box pan folder since you can let any pre formed bend hang over the edge while you make the next bend...
The advantage of a box pan folder is (at the consumer level!) for smaller boxes where you can set the exact width of the fingers to the length of the sides of the box. Typically with a sheet bender, there is no room to allow a second 90º bend either end of the top die. A box pan folder lets a pre formed edge go outside the edge of the "finger" so that you can complete all 4 sides.
4mm aluminium is an issue because it will need a huge amount of power so the fingers will need to be very strong (as will you!). For a decent length, those fingers are £££...
Flypress, cheap as chips albeit with some restriction for length but is by default, able to operate like a box pan folder since you can let any pre formed bend hang over the edge while you make the next bend...
