it's Friday fool and you need this tool
welcome back to another glorious episode of it's Friday fool you need this tool my
name is Kyle Voss and every Friday I bring you a tool a tool that I use here
in this shop or that I have featured on this channel for those of you that watch the
channel on a regular basis you see I look extra clean-cut Slick Rick no hat
wear less because I'm busy I've been really slack I mean busy lately you know
working on things around the house any fixing lawnmower and that sort of thing
nothing you want to watch nothing interesting so I didn't really film it
as you can tell I haven't really filmed anything I will tell you I have been
working on the gray goose a little bit just trying to get some of those laps'
little things done not worrying about making a video out of it so I can get
more done even though I have been filming it and I will actually include
that in an update video coming soon so if your into twin-turbo Mustangs I've
got some things in store for you so maybe I'll get back on regular schedule
here soon enough jibba jabba today's tool you want to see what today's tool
is right today's tool is the sheet metal brake this is a what they classify more
of a pan brake because it has the teeth had a lot of requests about featuring
this particular brake on the channel this is a Woodward fab brake actually
bought this thing used a while back you can get these things I believe for under
seven eight hundred bucks maybe seriously breaks are extremely useful I
make all kinds of stuff in this shop with this brake of made the custom
fabrication tool cart
the air tool holder
I made a radiator sport for the twin-turbo car
made up shifter base for the twin turbo car
made all kinds of things these things will definitely pay for itself just
think just in the things I just told you about would probably pay for the price
of this break right here well let me show you how it works and why I feel
like you need a break that has teeth on it versus the other kinds of brakes
they're just a straight solid brakes these are a little more expensive but in
the long run it's going to be totally worth the extra money so my suggestion
is save the money that you would spend on a regular brake and get one of these
box pan brakes and have the teeth that's just my opinion
all right well let's bend something so as you can see this is my Woodward fab
pan and box brake I believe is what they call these as you can see it has teeth
so these teeth are removable basically we take out these allen bolts and the
teeth will come out or you can just loosen them and they'll slide side to
side you can see I've got one tooth missing here it's going to be basically
just kind of show you why you would want to remove some teeth if you if you
wanted to make some certain things you can also see that all the teeth are
different sizes so they start off down here with a very small - you may be an
inch and a half and as you work your way down they get bigger maybe like five or
six inch - we wouldn't want them all to be small I guess in case you needed to
make some large pieces you have to move less teeth around alright so for this
demonstration we're just going to make some simple bends and this piece of
aluminum here and what I'll do is I'll bend each side up very similar what
you'd have in a radiator support or a radiator tie down plate right it's got
like two bands basically it's just going to be you shape very simply
these things have a lever on each side that basically raises the teeth so for
something like this you just raise one side and you can place the part in there
if you had something that was really wide you would raise both sides and then
clamp it down just like that what you got it clear I like to take one
of these magnetic angle finders just put it on the base here and then you just
pull up on this lower part till the degree of a band that you're looking for
on this particular one I'm going to do 90 degrees
raise your lever again there you go you got one nice 90-degree Bend okay
slow let's do the other side just same way
there you go there's your u-shape this would be great for like a radiator cap
radiator support I don't know there's all kinds of things you could make that
are very similar this and you can do compound bins like you can do multiples
of this now the reason the box and pan brakes are great is because if you
needed to bend this last piece you couldn't do it because of these flanges
that are hanging up here so even if I were to stick this thing here I wouldn't
be able to bend it up but a couple of couple degrees because these flanges
that I've already bent would bend into these teeth or if you didn't have the
teeth it would Bend into this plate there's up here that's where the teeth
come in because I can take this piece here neither insert it this way or this
way it doesn't really matter
kind of down just like that with the tooth in the center of this you've been
those wider you put more teeth in there it's narrower well you can't really go
much narrower than this but like building a prime example I'm getting
ready to build a battery box for the great goose and I will need to make
these compound bins that will bend over themselves in order to make that thing
that's one of the things going to basically pay for itself I'll make a
nice aluminum aircraft riveted battery box for that thing and if I would have
had just a straight plate style break I wouldn't be able to do that so for I
don't know what three extra three hundred extra bucks you can make things
that are nice not just one band or two bins
you're not making gutters here we're making making custom fabricated battery
boxes and whatever you want whatever your mind can dream of so we've got this
thing placed between teeth now all you got to do is grab this
give it a nice 90-degree Bend and you have a box
there you go custom box custom tray tool holder you can make boxed upper intakes
you could make whatever your mind can dream up really within reason with this
thing here the only the only break is really better than this in my opinion
for doing like complicated bends over the top of each other is what they call
it magnetic break which doesn't really have none of these tees as these plates
that go on top of the aluminum and magnetically it sandwiches that thing so
you can bend over top of it and do a little more complex things they do make
some breaks that actually have the fingers that come in look like piano key
style fingers they kind of come out and have a little more reach you can do
slightly more than this really this is really what you need for your home shop
you can make all kinds of custom parts and stuff for your cars really kind of
step you up that one little extra bit to the next level when you're going out and
you kind of showing off your fabrication skills this one here I believe is 48
inch this is 48 inch break so basically you can bend in a 48 inches worth of
material at one shot alright guys there you go
this week's tools a sheet metal break this thing one of these is really
essential if you're going to kind of do more of the shemail panels and that sort
of thing some good shears a sheet metal break and be roller in your business you
can literally make all kinds of stuff with just those three things
so you go what I'll do is I will drop some links in the description of several
styles of these things I'm trying to see if I can't find this exact brand I know
there's several other brands too that I'll include I'll even show you what the
magnetic brakes are that I was speaking of and you can kind of take a look for
yourself see what's out there he's been looking for brakes these things are
great I think this is like 63,000 aluminum bends it no problem I don't
know how high this one will this particular one will go as far as
thickness of aluminum or steel what I do it bends everything I needed to bend and
have any issues out of it whatsoever so there you go this week's tool the
sheetmetal brake and I'll just go figure out what I'm going to do with this thing
as always thank you for joining me I will see you guys some more this week
it's Friday fool