Very impressive build! Thanks for the shop tour, I wish you luck in your business!

Thanks man! I feel much more comfortable building my own now!

The price of machines and tooling is insane these days, outside of the fact that you're totally capable I can see why you built it. The abilty to do 8' material is awesome. I have an old 40 ton 3 in1 Gator with 4' shear, brake and turret press. It has an up acting bed with hydraulic cylinders on both sides and it's really hard to get a consistant bend from one side to the other. In 2002 I paid 13K for my 65 ton Edwards Ironworker loaded with tooling and loads of extras, today the base model of that machine is over 30K, crazy inflation.

super cool! really considering building my own too after seeing this! thanks for sharing! this is awesome!

That's a press brake / bender very different in design to the sort commonly sold. I like it. I might copy it.

I just found your channel. I intend to expand my home shop in the near future just to make stuff for myself and the four older Jeeps I am building for my grandsons and myself. There are so many great ideas here. Thank you, Sir! Subbed and watched twice already.

Impressive. We have a 35 ton Chicago mechanical press brake.

This is amazing. A suggestion from an electrical engineer---get a bigger box for your controls.

Impressive!

You did a great job! I built a 4' press brake using three 20 ton air over jacks, it works very well. I want to build an eight footer soon. I've purchased a couple new take/off 8" dia hydraulic cylinders for it and a 5hp hydraulic power unit. I'm collecting the steel for it as I find it reasonably. Thanks for showing us yours 😊

Nicely done.

Good job on your brake, I ran the maintenance dept at a woodstove/gas heating manufacture, I have worked a lot on Accupress brakes, on the older machines the upper part/head had nylon shims that were adjusted snug enough so if you removed the connecting rods the head would not fall down, the idea is that any slack on the connections between the cylinders and the head would be taken up before the head moved, what i have seen happen is if you have a 20 gage part it is pretty strong before it starts to bend, once it starts bending it is not as strong and the weight of the head can drop lower then you expect, sheet of metal are normally harder on the edges then in the middle, for my own 4ft brown bogs brake I used and old satellite dish positioner to power my back stop, it would of been on a 12ft dish with 10 setable positions and a forward and backward, it used two acme threads linked by chain, if I was bending parts that had one bend 1" from the edge and another 2" from the edge I could set up the buttons on the controller to be satellite 1 and 2, it works surprisingly well., I had a house jacked up one time, it used 4 jacks, the system could lock the 4 pumps into unison so all 4 jacks moved as one, I bet you could make that happen on your machine, Good luck, I'm subscribed.

Well... Now.... That was very impressive. i would be interested in the plans :-) You did very well 🙂

Pretty cool, well done

That’s an impressive machine. 😎

Impressive, your very talented.

Very cool piece of engineering! Have you considered adding a oil reservoir to the jacks so that you could add double action air cilinders for quick Initial down movement? Could greatly improve productivity

Really clever solution 👍👍

Nice build. What about two regular hydraulic cylinders with a pump and compensation valve?

wow very nice

I'd love to build one. I've got some plate steel.

Congratulations on a great build with lots of good ideas . Thanks for the shop tour. I will email you as below for the dxf files ( I see your details below) if your are kind enough to provide. Thanks

I'd love to build one. If you decide to release drawings, I'm in.

Looks like a parts tumbler there. More info on that?

2 things. 1. Do some reconstructive surgery on those hydraulic jacks so they are hydraulically tied together. Or buy some discount cylinders and plumb them that way, it will help with the racking, if you can find a cheap hydraulic proportioning valve it will solve it completely 2. Push air on top on the oil in the reserve portion of the jack, it will give you a rapid down feed with little force , until the pump needs to take over, vent it accordingly.

A question Is the top pipe mounted on any kind of bearing? And have you noticed any twisting from it/ way cool machine

I would be interested in the dxf files. Where can I get them?

Nicely done, I would love to take a look at the case model if you are willing to share. Totally get it if you don’t. Looks like you spent allot of time thinking through the assembly and functionality of this machine.

very intrested in your build would like dxf files

Would love to get dxf file if possible. I’d build it using hydraulics

Run the ram hoses in parallel.

I like to have cutting files 😊

I same your idea, if just for home use not business can share the drawing of all part of machine I also want to build it. I am foreigner

Hi is there any way I can get the files for it

About 3 years ago I saw a video of the machining and construction of a press brake with similar dimensions from An Engineer’s Findings (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/max5e7l50cyZY3k.htmlsi=-IPG0CThixzK5WOF) and I wanted something like that. Watching your video showed me how can be done on my budget and capabilities. I love it! I don’t have a water jet, or anything to cut steel thicker than 3/8” (10mm) with accuracy (I think I’m stretching the capability of my plasma cutter).

A hydraulic flow divideder hydraulic power unit and 2 cylinders and you'll be able to solve all the issues you've had and faster cycle times

Press brake is BA.