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Post by mobiltec on May 14, 2015 16:58:53 GMT -8
I've been fabricating a lot of my own metal parts for a while now. Never did try to make door frame parts though. Did that today and had great success. Of course there will be a video soon. I'll post some photos here very soon.
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Post by SusieQ on May 14, 2015 17:04:16 GMT -8
I could have used some advice this past week. I'm sure it won't be the last time I bend metal. It's kind of fun.
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Post by mobiltec on May 14, 2015 17:07:41 GMT -8
I could have used some advice this past week. I'm sure it won't be the last time I bend metal. It's kind of fun. I saw your thresh hold and it looks pretty good Suz. But I have a video on my website showing how to make one on a hand brake. You can get a 36 inch hand brake at Harbor Freight for under $50 and you can make a lot of the stuff you need on that. Today I had access to a large one and made jambs also.
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Post by SusieQ on May 14, 2015 17:14:34 GMT -8
I told my hubby if I had the right tools, I might be good at it. I used a piece of flat iron and a rubber mallet. I think I'm going to remake my door threshold. I used the old one for a pattern and it is exactly like it but I think I could make one that fits a little better than the original.
The piece of door trim at the top was easy but I imagine the long pieces are a bit harder.
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Post by mobiltec on May 14, 2015 17:16:08 GMT -8
Yep you need a long tool for jambs. Most headers and thresh holds are under 25 inches though. So the tool from HF will work fine for that and also all the vents and most of the interior window trim.
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Post by davek on May 17, 2015 21:16:57 GMT -8
Can you provide a link to the HF brake? Could it be used to make a threshold like this? Thanks Dave
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Post by mobiltec on May 18, 2015 7:01:30 GMT -8
Can you provide a link to the HF brake? Could it be used to make a threshold like this? Thanks Dave Yes it could. I will be providing photos to this thread of what I made later today. There are two hand brakes available at HF. One is under $50 and the other is about $180 I think. If you need to go past 90 degrees for a bend I'm not sure that the brakes HF sells will do that. Many thresh holds like the one I made need to go past 90 degrees to be made. Yours just has two 90 degree bends though so yours could be done with the HF brake. I did my bending on a professional 14 foot long hand brake. Watch for my post later today. Here is a link to one of my metal bending vids. It starts with a look at a crashed trailer then goes into metal bending. Photos of what I did last week will be posted later today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3I1Yq2ypSg
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Post by davek on May 18, 2015 15:58:28 GMT -8
Thanks for the info. Looks like the cheap HF brake will do the bending I need. Is there a trick or cheap tool to make a clean cut of the aluminum on the long straight edge?
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Post by mobiltec on May 18, 2015 17:15:45 GMT -8
Thanks for the info. Looks like the cheap HF brake will do the bending I need. Is there a trick or cheap tool to make a clean cut of the aluminum on the long straight edge? Thanks Dave The way you cut a staight edge is to clamp the metal down in the brake just like you were going to bend it and then take a razor knife and scribe into the metal alont the straight edge of the bender maybe 3 or 4 times. Then just wiggle the metal back and forth and it breaks on the scribe nice and clean. That's how I cut all my metal that I want a clean edge on. Especially the door jamb parts. Here's the metal I made the other day. I cut it all that way. First and second photos show the thresh hold (left) header (right) and jambs (top). The third photo is a door bottom. You need to be able to bend past 90 degrees for that one. The last photo shows the old jambs and thresh hold. You can see the difference.
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Post by mobiltec on May 18, 2015 17:18:17 GMT -8
I have to go back to Hemet RV and make one more piece that I forgot about and I will make a short video showing how to cut a straight edge in the brake using a razor knife. The video I have a couple posts up shows going past 90 degrees for the lip on the thresh hold. I will show how to make a door top and bottom also. Many times the door bottom is missing completely because they just fall off due to rot. Nice to know how to make one.
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Post by davek on May 18, 2015 21:57:16 GMT -8
Good deal. Looks like I have the info I need to try my hand at fabricating a threshold.
Thanks very much for the info.
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