Magnetic Sheet Metal Bending Brake

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Electromagnetic Sheet Metal Bending Brake

Check out the MagnaBrake

Here's a great video that introduces the MagnaBrake:

MagnaBrake Magnetic Sheet Metal Brake

It's pretty easy to see from the video why one of these brakes would be a lot more useful than a conventional sheet metal brake. The interesting thing is it doesn't look that hard to build one for your shop. The inventor has a site with quite a few details. I'm wondering how hard it would be to apply some simple CNC to one in the form of a motorized bending gage as well as motorizing the bending action.

Links

MagnaBrake Inventor's Site

Practical Machinest Thread on Electromagnetic Brakes

EIS Online Nomex Insulating Paper: Extra insulation for the electromagnet

EIS Magnet Wire: For winding the electromagnet's coil.

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