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Mainly just daydreaming over a tool crib catalog on a raining day, came across a rebar bending. There must be a simple way to do this without spending $299. There got to be a homemade trick. Any ideas?
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Take a section of timber, like a railway sleeper. Drill two 1/2" holes about 2" apart at one end and put short lengths of 1/2" rebar in them, sticking up about 2". These are used to hold the end of the bar you are bending, now you want a post to bend the rebar around so drill another hole, 3/4" diameter, about 18" to 2' away from the other two and put a short length of 3/4" bar in this, again sticking up about 2". The rebar is bent around this post, using a 3' length of tube slipped over the free end of the rebar as a lever.
*In defense of this cutter/bender, if you have a lot of custom cuts and bends, it's a GREAT tool. We had to bend about 600 braces, 3 bends each, but some to custom fit an area, and it made them easy and accurate. Had many other bends, and again, it was so much easier with this than with a hickey bar or any other homemade jig. Not worth it, of course, for a handful of simple right angles--shoot, just buy those at a material supplier if necessary. But it is a great tool to have!
*Conduit bender works for me.
*I did what you said, Took your design, Found a piece of six inch angle in the yard, five foot long. Drill eight 1/2 holes altenation about 10 inches apart with a 3/4 hole on the end. Installed four inch bolt in the hole that I had laying around, Put a three foot cheater bar on the rebar and it bends the hell out of it. For once something work the first time. Mr. Ian thank you for your idea. took me all of twelve minutes to build.
*Don't thank me, mate, thank a Yemeni steel-fixer I saw in Saudi Arabia using a home-made rig like that.
*I agree with festus. a cheap conduit bender works well, until you need a close radius bend or a cut. Then your SOL. So I have to go with JIM K. If your doing a lot of rebar work that requires presicion the cutter/bender is the right tool.
*I just needed a simple cheap jig to bend 90 degress so I could tie the block rebar into the footing. Something I could throw away when I,m finish. A custom housebuilder that has an office in my bldg told me to throw it in his truck when I,m done. It really came out great. bent 50 rod today. Happy, happy, joy,joy
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Mainly just daydreaming over a tool crib catalog on a raining day, came across a rebar bending. There must be a simple way to do this without spending $299. There got to be a homemade trick. Any ideas?