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Old 11-04-2018, 06:41 PM
John Buchtenkirch John Buchtenkirch is offline
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So now you can see why the Whitney brake is the favorite of smaller stainless kitchen shops. They bend all the soft radius straight run bends on the fronts & sides of kitchen sinks on the Whitney and then tig weld in the partial corner balls which I’m told are available in cast stainless. Then some polishing of the welds and it’s ready for the customer.

Here is another Whitney brake trick. The front turnbuckle style adjusters (red arrow) have enough adjustment to grab plate, box tubing or whatever you want up to 4” thick. So you lay a piece of let’s say 3” box tubing on top of your sheet, grab the two with the upper beam, then make your first 90 degree bend using the tubing as a die. Then you rotate the sheet & the box tubing ¼ turn and proceed to bend another 90 degree bend. Do that 2 more times and you have actually wrapped the 3” box tubing with sheet metal !

And another Whitney trick. You can bend ½ of the width of say a 3” wide strip of sheet 135 degrees over the upper beam and you then have a nose cap for the upper beam. You can adjust the upper beam back and then bend a second nose cap over the first. Each nose cap you add will make the front edge of the upper beam softer & softer……… making the nose caps into radius dies.

I have always told people that the Whitney combination brake is similar to the Pullmax in that what you can accomplish is only limited by your imagination and ability to make some dies . ~ John Buchtenkirch
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