Bending Stainless Steel Rod With Heat

Can this kind of bending be done cold without cracking.

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. Bar and flat bending of stainless steel. With extreme caution light the torch and apply the heat to the area of. Or would that be preferable to heat bending.

Clamp the stock in a vise. 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. Some over bending will be required to counteract spring back of the bend. 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. Place the two bolts an inch apart in your vise and tighten sufficiently so that the bolts will not shift. Most steel bars are either hot rolled or cold rolled. Position the rod in the vise between the bolts at the place where you would like to have the bend in the rod.

Stainless is weak in tension when heated and the mateial hot tears. You can make simple bends in iron and steel using nothing more than a torch to heat and soften the metal. If the stuff is 300 series stainless heating to red and then bending should work. Stainless steel is even harder to bend.

And would heat bending weaken the ss tensile properties. A cold rolled bar is shinier than a hot rolled bar but is also harder to bend. With a soapstone pencil mark a line across the stock to indicate the center of the bend. Put on your safety glasses and leather gloves.

Light the torch and adjust it to a neutral flame. How to bend a stainless steel rod step 1. 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.