Bending Stainless Steel Rod With Heat. Bending a 316 stainless steel rod 10mm 3 8 dia to a tight radius to make a u bolt that fits inside a 50mm 2 dia pipe. Place the two bolts an inch apart in your vise and tighten sufficiently so that the bolts will not shift. The eastwood rod forming tool is a high quality industrial style tool capable of generating a powerful leveraged force to create 180 or greater repeatable bends in mild steel stainless steel and aluminum rods up to 3 8 diameter and flat stock up to 1 2 wide and 3 16 thick.
Bar and flat bending of stainless steel. If the stuff is 300 series stainless heating to red and then bending should work.
Bar and flat bending of stainless steel.
Clamp the stainless steel rod into the vise with the area you need to bend resting against the side of the vise. Round bar flat bar sheet and plate can be bent using a press brake bending machine or ring rolling. The u bolt is to be 300mm 1 long. The stronger the steel the more the bend will approximate a v while the weaker the steel the more the bend will look like a u 2.
